| Jun 14, 2023 | RoundupThe Juneteenth holiday weekend is coming up — and this year’s celebration comes with a bit of good news. Over 150 years after the end of slavery in this country, generations of public policy have left a wide open racial wealth gap. But now, writes Dedrick...
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| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs Scottish literary giant Robert Burns wrote, “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Go oft awry.” His 1785 poem, titled “To A Mouse,” could be directed today at the right-wing sloganeers who’ve been scheming so furiously to turn their hokey “woke” snobbery into a...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityDoes anyone have a sweeter deal than military contractor CEOs? The United States spent more last year on defense than the next 10 nations combined. A deal just brokered by the White House and House Republicans increases that amount even further — to $886 billion....
| Jun 7, 2023 | RoundupThe debt ceiling drama ended with more of a whimper than a bang, with President Biden averting both a default and the harshest safety net cuts the GOP was demanding. But as Karen Dolan explains this week — and as cartoonist Khalil Bendib clearly agrees —...
