| Feb 20, 2019 | RoundupPresident Trump has declared a “National Emergency” in a bid to free up funds to build a border wall. (Immediately after declaring it, he decamped for his Florida resort — where, cartoonist Khalil Bendib expects, he was waited on by undocumented...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn the 400th year since chattel slavery began in the colony of Virginia in 1619, the Commonwealth has been under severe duress, with its heads of state embroiled in controversies descended from the colony’s founding sin. For weeks, Democrats and Republicans...
| | Environment / HealthA lot has been written lately about the possibility of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is hardly new. In 2001, as George W. Bush and his Interior Secretary Gail Norton were pushing to open up the Refuge, a photographer friend and I flew...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyNewspapers on the other side of the world are calling it “the biggest U.S. cinema event of all time.” Critical acclaim has poured in from all corners for the BBC production They Shall Not Grow Old, a technical and emotional masterpiece on the First World War — the war...
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityAs the sister of a brother lost to an opioid overdose, Trump’s claim that we need a border wall in order to keep drugs out is offensive to me on multiple levels. Fact checkers also report that his claims are not true — a border wall would not keep drugs out of our...
