| Sep 3, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMy family and I finally secured stable housing again, years after being priced out of a duplex we’d been renting. I’m both relieved and worried. Now the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” threatens health care and food for my four kids — just to pay for massive tax breaks...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP FeaturedAI is everywhere. But its powerful computing comes with a big cost to our planet, our neighborhoods, and our wallets. AI servers are so power hungry that utilities are keeping coal-fired power plants that were slated for closure running to meet the needs of massive...
| Aug 27, 2025 | RoundupLast week, my colleague Hanna Homestead laid out the stunningly high cost of Donald Trump’s occupation of DC. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to skewed spending priorities. This week in OtherWords, Sonali Kolhatkar notes that both...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyShould your employer be allowed to ban you from taking another job? Most Americans would say that’s ridiculous — but it’s more common than you think. When I was head of the policy office at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), I read thousands of public comments about...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn a 2006 documentary, I assailed Texas Republican lawmakers for ramming a brutish gerrymandering scheme into law, doing my report from a street sign in central Austin. That sign was the exact location the GOP had used as the pin point for slicing up the city’s one...
