| Dec 24, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn this season of (hoped for) peace and goodwill, it’s worth looking for things our divided country can agree on. And since all of us want to be able to trust government to spend wisely, we might find common cause in a surprising place: the Pentagon budget. When you...
| Dec 21, 2018 | RoundupCall me naive for even implying it might have been otherwise, but the news barreled right on into the holiday season. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers this year faced the prospect of getting furloughed right before Christmas, all over that border wall we keep...
| Dec 20, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyEach New Year’s, my wife and I indulge one of our favorite traditions: the household purge. We scour our closets for stuff that’s just taking up space, quietly draining our home’s energy, and move it along. I can’t recommend it enough. This year, America’s doing the...
| Dec 19, 2018 | RoundupA recent Oval Office standoff between Democratic congressional leaders and President Trump over government funding seemed to promise a more confrontational year in politics to come — especially as new revelations keep coming from the Mueller investigation. But,...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyIf you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckle-headism has swept our country, turning previously progressive white working-class people into mindless Trump worshipers, then I want to tell you about a new report. It’s from People’s Action,...
