| Mar 13, 2024 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMany Americans haven’t heard of cash bail. But the idea is central to an election year battle over racism, policing, and mass incarceration. When arrested on suspicion of committing a crime, everyone in the United States has the right to due process and to defend...
| Feb 28, 2024 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDuring my time in prison, I lived in hell. I witnessed horrific abuse, suffered from a critical lack of mental health care, and was treated as less than human. Guards even taunted inmates that we couldn’t change the system because our right to vote would be stripped...
| Oct 26, 2022 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIf you’re trying to process all those political ads you’re seeing about crime, you’d better look at the facts. First of all, why are we hearing about this now? Republican-appointed justices just canceled the right to abortion. Most Republicans oppose acting to protect...
| Oct 19, 2022 | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn states across the country, cynical politicians are turning a humanitarian crisis into political theater. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu recently announced that he was deploying the state National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border, joining around two-dozen mostly...