| Feb 28, 2024 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s 2024, but it feels like we’re back in 1991 this Women’s History Month. Back then, President George H.W. Bush was following in the footsteps of his predecessor Ronald Reagan by continuing to appoint conservative judges to the federal bench, and Roe v. Wade was...
| | Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityEarlier this year, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza plausibly constitute genocide. The world’s most influential judicial body ordered Israel to stop killing civilians and to admit more humanitarian aid. Unfortunately, Israel was...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI no longer receive my local newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman. Oh, the paper still comes, but it’s just paper, minus the news part — news that our community once counted on to keep up with local government doings, corporate shenanigans, citizen actions, and...
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| Feb 21, 2024 | RoundupThis week, in the latest of our series on the affordability crisis, Farrah Hassen looks at the rising cost of housing. More Americans were reported homeless last year than any other, Farrah reports, and new research ties rising homelessness to the rising cost of...