| Oct 23, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe Trump administration has been blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean — and now one in the Pacific — claiming without evidence that they’re “drug boats.” These are extrajudicial executions outside any system of law. And there’s a reason we shouldn’t allow drug...
| Oct 22, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyI’ve spent my career highlighting the problems posed by extreme wealth. Not everyone buys it. “None of my problems exist as a result of someone else being a billionaire,” Greg B. recently wrote to me. The problem isn’t individual billionaires, I told Greg. It’s the...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe Trump administration has eliminated the entire staff of the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. This is more than bureaucratic reshuffling — it’s an assault on one of the most effective and bipartisan vehicles for...
| Oct 15, 2025 | RoundupGovernment shutdowns are… bad, right? For most of us, yes! But as Igor Volsky warns this week, politically connected billionaires have often used shutdowns — or even pushed for them — to avoid paying taxes, shrug off regulations, or win service cuts for working...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump recently followed through on his threat to use the federal government shutdown as an occasion to fire government workers on a mass scale. Shutdowns are temporary, yet the effects of this one seem likely to be permanent. It’s a kind of limbo, a...
