| Jul 3, 2019 | RoundupAs reports emerge of horrifying conditions in immigration detention camps this week, Lizet Ocampo reports on the latest revelations and wonders when Americans will say enough is enough. And Jill Richardson, who visited a detainment facility in 2010 under the Obama...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyFor $3.5 trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class health care system? Yet while we spend the most of any advanced nation in the world to get care — more than $10,000 a year per person — we get the worst results. No surprise, then, that Medicare...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedPoverty is expensive, but fixing it doesn’t have to be — at least not compared to the status quo. The Institute for Policy Studies and the Poor People’s Campaign recently released a Moral Budget, and it’s a veritable treasure trove of illuminating data proving that...
| | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyTrump, under fire for separating immigrant children from their families and detaining them in inhumane conditions, has falsely claimed that Obama started the policy of family separation. Obama’s policies for migrant children and immigration were not perfect. He...
| | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOver the past several weeks, the brutal terror that immigrants face at the hands of our government has come into even sharper focus. As reports surface about immigrant children sleeping on concrete floors and people being forced to drink water from toilets, one fact...