| Jul 3, 2024 | RoundupAs veteran attorney Mitchell Zimmerman writes this week, it’s no small irony that the Supreme Court chose the week of July 4 to award the president essentially monarchical powers. The ruling concerns former President Trump, who’s claimed he can’t be...
| | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIn Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” where the air is thick with pollutants and asthma rates are alarmingly high, a troublesome irony is unfolding. This region is home to sprawling petrochemical plants and toxic fossil fuels that disproportionately affect the respiratory...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis op-ed was written for Inside Sources. It can be republished with attribution to InsideSources.com. I was a student in the late 2000s when I had my first brush with “cancel culture.” A campus group had invited Nick Griffin — a racist Holocaust denier and leader of...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you hadn’t read the news in four years — or just arrived from another galaxy — the Supreme Court’s de facto grant of immunity to Donald Trump for his alleged federal crimes might sound almost reasonable. There are “unique risks,” six right-wing justices warned,...
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