| Jul 24, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthWhile Donald Trump fans the embers of xenophobia in our country by demonizing caravans of desperate Central Americans headed north, there are other northern-bound caravans he doesn’t mention. These are U.S. citizens crossing our northern border into Canada,...
| | Rights / DemocracyI went to graduate school thinking I was straight. Then I realized I wasn’t. I came out of the closet almost two years ago, right after deciding to do my graduate research in Montana. Suddenly, I had an extra consideration on my plate: What would it be like to be gay...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyVivian Majors spent her life cleaning houses while her husband, Martin, worked as a carpenter. Their bodies broke down in their 60s. Martin now lives in a nursing home and has Parkinson’s disease. Vivian, now 71, lives on her own and ekes by on a $960 in social...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRepublicans have a go-to line when it comes to deflecting charges of racism: We’re the party of Lincoln! For instance, after President Trump spewed divisive, racist rhetoric toward Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMedicare for All is a popular idea — 70 percent of Americans say they support it, including 52 percent of Republicans. Why? Because in red and blue states alike, they see the costs of a market-driven system that values profit over patients. There’s perhaps no state in...
