| Jan 12, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWe celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day not only to commemorate King’s historic role in overcoming racism and other injustice, but because his work and vision remain relevant. Today’s persistent racism in policing, health care, housing, and elsewhere, and attacks on...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyPoliticians are no strangers to making campaign promises. Delivering on those promises? Well, that’s often another story. Such is the case thus far with President Biden’s campaign pledge to reform America’s archaic and unpopular marijuana prohibition laws. “No one...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOn January 15, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was leaving a planning meeting for the Poor People’s Campaign when he was called back into the room. It was his birthday — his last, it would turn out. The staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference would usually...
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| Jan 5, 2022 | RoundupThe coup attempt of January 6 was a brief, bizarre, and terrifying moment that exposed the fragility of American democracy. This week in OtherWords, we look at the shape of things a year later. For a moment, it looked like there was a silver lining to the violence. As...
