| Apr 29, 2026 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump recently put out an executive order attempting to restrict mail-in voting. Trump loathes mail ballots — except, of course, when he votes by mail himself, as he did this year in Florida. Broad, cross-partisan swaths of our electorate benefit from this...
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityEven in this ugly era of political divisiveness, some things remain bigger than partisan politics. For example, travel deep into Southwest Texas to the Mexican border, and you’ll witness two powerful forces of political harmony in Big Bend National Park. First is the...
| Apr 23, 2026 | RoundupIt’s gotten hard to keep up with the news about talks between the U.S. and Iran — or even to trust the updates coming from the administration about them. This week in OtherWords, Mitchell Zimmerman argues that despite the administration’s claims of...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresidents release their federal spending priorities annually in the form of a federal budget proposal. This is a moral rather than a practical document — the president’s budget virtually never passes Congress as written. Instead, it expresses the values of presidents...
| Apr 22, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityDid you know that Germany won World War II? Because so many died in the Soviet Union, the combined Russian and U.S. military deaths in World War II were over twice that of Germany. So Germany won — except for the small matter of the Soviets and the U.S. occupying...
