| Sep 30, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityAs the pandemic continues to claim lives across the country, new information keeps coming out about how the Trump administration has made it harder for Americans to protect themselves. We now know, for example, that early in the pandemic the U.S. Postal Service had...
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| Sep 23, 2020 | RoundupThis week, millions of Americans are mourning the recently departed Ruth Bader Ginsburg and preparing for a pitched battle over her replacement on the Supreme Court. In OtherWords, attorney Mitchell Zimmerman lays out the stakes for the court’s legitimacy if...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThis year marks the 100-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment, when women got the right to vote in all 50 states. Limiting voting to men at the nation’s founding was part of the legal doctrine of coverture, in which a woman was legally represented first by her father...
| | Peace / SecurityOn September 26, 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov got an alert that a U.S. missile attack was imminent. Faced with the choice of whether to launch a submarine nuclear missile, Petrov made the split-second decision that the alert must have been an error....
