| Oct 15, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracySuppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, and searching their belongings. They also force their way into random houses — including yours, maybe — to search...
| Oct 7, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyA recent gathering at the Pentagon was extraordinary. Not in a good way. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals and other officers to leave their posts all over the world. He demanded loyalty to the new “culture” he’s imposing on the armed forces....
| Sep 25, 2019 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI lost everything during the financial crisis. The government decided that the perpetrators of the crisis were “too big to fail” and bailed them out with our money. I was not bailed out. Today, a decade after the crisis, I’m part of a grassroots-led effort to ensure...
| Apr 1, 2019 | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs the 2020 campaign lurches to a start, get ready to hear a lot about “identity politics.” If a candidate mentions or draws attention to her race, gender, or sexuality, some people say, she’s making our country “more divided.” We need to stop engaging in identity...
| Apr 11, 2018 | Rights / DemocracyTeachers across the United States are having a moment. Educators are building on the momentum from West Virginia, where striking teachers won a 5 percent pay raise for state employees. Now the protests have spread to Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and the nation’s...
