| Sep 30, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedToday I looked at a graph of income inequality over time in America. This was not new information to me, and yet it was still shocking. From the 1950s until the early 1970s, Americans grew richer together. Some Americans were poor and others were rich, but their...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyMy daughter, a librarian in Tucson, paid more taxes in 2017 than Donald Trump. So did my neighbor Rita, a teacher, and her son Tony, who stocks grocery shelves in Leland, Michigan I also pay more in taxes than the president of the United States. And, probably, so do...
| | 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...
