Voice of the People
Columns by James J. Devine, originally published on Substack.
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How security became a subscription service For decades, one of the most literal expressions of American insecurity was the gated community. Its proposition could be understood at a glance: We are inside. They are outside. The gate turned wealth into…
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A line-by-line autopsy of Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano’s latest deceptive pre-election propaganda proves that the Trump team is lying! On Halloween, with early voting underway and an election that is unmistakably a referendum on Donald Trump’s chaotic misrule…
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There is every reason to believe that President Donald Trump is going to cheat if Republicans lose their congressional majorities in the midterm elections, because he has cheated before when he lost
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Census data for 2025 showed record income gains, but lagging reports for 2026 will show the full impact of H.R. 1 safety-net cuts. Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) president Wendy Chun-Hoon said a law signed by President Donald…
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This land is my land, this land is your land, and we should not allow greedy parasites to take more than they deserve! Woody Guthrie wrote his famous folk song This Land Is Your Land in 1940 as a critical…
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After fifty years, the science is clear, the consequences are visible, yet the political will is absent. The fight for our lives was declared, mocked, and abandoned.
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There is a lot of credible evidence that is far more damning than the effort to conceal proof about crime by President Donald Trump’s friends buried in the files that are hidden from public view.
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Trump projects a tough guy image while undermining systems that ensure security and making the situation much more dangerous for future generations. caption…The central myth of Donald Trump’s political identity—one curated with theatrical bluster and repeated like a secular mantra—is…
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Wasting $8 trillion left 38 million displaced, a prison that won’t close, and Americans are no safer today than we were the day before terrorists turned airplanes into weapons
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By every measure that once defined American moral authority, the government in Washington is now the danger the world fears most. In 1967, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared that the United States was “the world’s greatest purveyor of…
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Corporate crime is treated with a generous and forgiving brand of justice that the most deserving human defendants never experience. I have just completed a two-year sentence of probation after admitting to a crime that I did not commit, but…
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When totalitarianism fuses with advanced technology, the threat to accountable government—and to the human rights, freedom, and diversity it protects—stops being dystopian fiction and becomes reality.
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By James J. Devine A fierce debate over child exploitation, transparency, and government intervention has erupted across state houses and the halls of Congress, leading critics to argue that the Republican Party—long known as the Grand Old Party (GOP)—is facing a severe identity crisis. Detractors and advocacy groups have increasingly accused party members of failing…
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The most damning thing about the American catastrophe is not that nobody saw it coming. They saw it. Knowledgeable people saw the dangers, described them, and still failed to stop them.
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THE FUTURE: Dystopia or Democracy — The choice before us and what it requires Rollerball ends on an ambiguous note that is also a political challenge. Jonathan E. survives. The crowd chants his name. The formal structure of the game…
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The distribution of wealth and power is not the result of natural law or divine providence. It is the result of unfair human choices, made by human beings, over centuries.
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Mass incarceration and the architecture of racialized punishment reveals a betrayal of America’s most fundamental values of liberty, prosperity, security, and justice for all.
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President Donald Trump’s sanctions on the International Criminal Court amount to a confession of war crimes, delivered with the subtlety of a mob enforcer.
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Today’s content creator is less a self-made mogul and more like a 19th-century sharecropping tenant, working on algorithmic land in a system best described as “sharecreating”
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Hoover hounded him, the NAACP distanced him, and the state let him die—but his ideas are more alive than the empire that tried to bury him.

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