| Jun 13, 2018 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyBefore all the North Korea news hit, the last few weeks seemed to show another surprising turnaround for President Trump: some sympathy for criminal justice reform. After a visit from Kim Kardashian, the president commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a...
| | Rights / DemocracyAre we Americans unworthy? That’s certainly the message we’re getting from our government. Over 40 percent of us are poor or low-income. How is that possible in the wealthiest country in history? “The United States is alone among developed countries in insisting that...
| | HP FeaturedSome critics have knocked President Trump for making “too many concessions” to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the historic Singapore Summit — the first-ever meeting between a U.S. president and North Korean leader. Trump’s foreign policy instincts have had me...
| Jun 6, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMost mornings lately, I’ve woken up to two things. First I hear my toddler, sounding off that it’s time to get up. Then I see the news stories about other toddlers our immigration authorities ripped away from their parents. For weeks, I’ve felt the gnawing need to...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThree years ago, when my grandmother fell ill, I chose to delay my studies to work full time at McDonald’s to pay for her prescriptions and medical care. I knew at the time that my starting pay of $7.45 an hour wouldn’t be enough to live on. I even knew that I’d have...
