| Feb 27, 2019 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyAn Arkansas lawmaker wants to cut school lunch funding for schools that fail to improve their students’ reading levels. I’m sorry, what? I think I understand the logic behind such a proposal. I just strongly disagree with it. It’s cruel, but even more than that, it’s...
| Oct 10, 2018 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn June, our immigrant-bashing president ordered an end to his own warped policy of forcibly tearing terrified migrant children from the arms of their asylum-seeking parents. “I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated,” Trump...
| Jul 17, 2018 | Rights / DemocracyWe Americans believe everyone has a right to have their day in court. Right? But what if the court is turned into a loony bin, making a mockery of justice? Welcome to the federal immigration courts that are struggling to deal with the insanity of Trump’s imperious...
| Jul 9, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWhat goes around comes around. This familiar phrase explains why Central American families and children are coming up to our back door, seeking asylum in the United States. And they will keep coming — even if the Trump government resumes tearing small children away...
| Jun 20, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyLet’s be clear about something: Separating children from families, as the Trump regime is doing to undocumented immigrants, isn’t just cruel. It’s going to cause irreparable damage to the children involved — and probably to the parents too. The...