| Aug 22, 2018 | Economy / BusinessBack in 1999, no executive personified the soaring pay packages of America’s CEOs more than Jack Welch at General Electric. Welch took home $75 million that year. Welch credited that exorbitant salary not to his own genius, but to the genius of the free market....
| | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAfter a school year marred by shootings, districts across the country have responded this year with calls for more “school resource officers” in classrooms. As a result, many students are returning to schools that feel more like prisons — and in fact form...
| Aug 21, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyLast year, I had the pleasure of watching grizzly bears play and interact outside of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. Nothing could have prepared me for what it was like to see them with my own eyes. Documentaries and photos may offer a glimpse, but watching them...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThe Trump-GOP tax law was sold as a boon for the middle class. But many months after its passage, there are no signs that working Americans are getting the pay raise they were promised. The Trump administration claimed the corporate tax cuts would eventually lead to...
| | Environment / HealthRight now, much of the west is affected by wildfires. An unlucky minority will have to evacuate their homes, and some will lose their homes altogether — or even their lives. But for millions more across the west, “smoke season” is a real thing. Vast swaths...
