| Mar 13, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyTens of millions of Americans rely on the public assistance programs — like Medicaid, SNAP, housing aid, and more — that Republican leaders are now threatening to gut. I’m one of them. My dream is to regain the financial independence I once enjoyed before life and...
| | Economy / Business|Peace / SecurityUh-oh. Trump is hearing voices again. And the voices are telling him to do something truly stupid. As he puts it, “There is a lot of talk about the Postal Service being taken private.” He adds, “It’s an idea that a lot of people have liked for a long time.” Hmmm, I...
| Mar 12, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityThe paper sheet crinkled under me as I shifted on the vinyl examination table. The doctor paused. “Hmm,” she said quietly. This was January 2021. I’d patched together a few gigs since completing a masters degree program the previous year, but was still struggling to...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyElon Musk and Donald Trump have been axing the federal workforce based on the claim that the government is “bloated.” Now Trump’s blaming federal workers for a recession his own policies may be creating. As a candidate, Trump repeatedly promised to reverse inflation....
| Mar 5, 2025 | RoundupIn the first State of the Union-style address of his second term, Donald Trump spent several minutes advancing falsehoods about Social Security — an ominous sign of things to come, says Social Security Works president Nancy J. Altman. “The last few weeks...
