| Feb 20, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyOn one February day alone, the Trump administration abruptly fired an estimated 14,000 federal workers. Among them was Brian Gibbs, a National Park Service ranger whose heartbreaking account of losing his “dream job” puts a human face on a crisis that...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn a deeply disturbing and unprecedented move, the U.S. has begun transferring immigrant detainees to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. They’re being held without access to their lawyers and families. President Trump has ordered up to 30,000 “high-priority” migrants to be...
| Feb 19, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAmong the flurry of actions by the Trump administration, it could be easy to miss one that poses a grave danger to public health and our planet: a no-holds-barred attack on science. In a series of disturbing moves, the administration has censored scientific research,...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityWith an annual budget rapidly approaching $1 trillion, the Pentagon already gets more discretionary tax dollars than any other agency. Now congressional Republicans are proposing to hike that figure by anywhere from $100 billion to $150 billion — while slashing...
| Feb 12, 2025 | RoundupAs the Trump team tries to “flood the zone” with executive orders and off-the-walls pronouncements, we’re slowing down a bit to look in more detail at the communities behind these headlines. This week in OtherWords, Alliyah Lusuegro — a Dreamer...
