| Apr 30, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor more than 30 years, I’ve led faith-focused delegations to Central America — and since 2016, to U.S.-Mexico border communities. We’ve taken nuns, bishops, rabbis, and grassroots congregants to learn about realities rarely covered in the news. This April...
| Mar 5, 2019 | Editors Picks|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe current administration has bent over backwards to force-feed its anti-immigrant agenda to the American public. That agenda remains broadly unpopular, but they’ve tried every trick in the con artist book to impose it anyway. Despite years of hysterical...
| Jan 30, 2019 | Rights / DemocracyTime for a pop quiz on Trump’s Wall. Question 1: How much will it cost us? Trump & Company says the price tag is $5.7 billion. But — pssssst — that only buys a starter wall of 230 miles, covering barely a tenth of our 2,000-mile Mexican border. The dirty little...
| Jan 9, 2019 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWay back in 2014 — a century ago, it feels like — President Barack Obama requested time on major networks for an Oval Office address on immigration reform. Fearing the subject was too “political,” the broadcast networks declined, plying viewers instead with The Big...
| | Editors Picks|Rights / DemocracyNews outlets are treating the Trump shutdown as a power struggle between two willful forces, the president and the Democrats — rather than the president’s disturbing rule-or-ruin strategy. Let’s call it what it is: extortion, an attack on our democracy and...
