| Jan 15, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyYou’re reading the words of a formerly undocumented immigrant. When I fled El Salvador four decades ago, I was 12 years old and alone. I was escaping the country’s civil war, where U.S.-backed death squads had made murders and rape our daily reality. I reunited with...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOn the one hand, there’s no sugarcoating how progressives feel as President Trump retakes office: rough. Trump and his allies in Congress are already rolling out plans to cut taxes for billionaires, slash services for the rest of us, pollute the planet, and deport...
| | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedAs President Trump takes office, his Republican allies in Congress are already hard at work readying his legislative agenda. Trump campaigned on a promise to lower costs for Americans. But so far, the GOP hasn’t proposed a single plan to do that. Instead, Republicans...
| Dec 18, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyHoward Lutnick wants to have his cake and eat it, too. Then, he intends to eat your cake. Lutnick is another billionaire corporate huckster who was a campaign bagman for Trump, and now he’s Trump’s pick to become Commerce Secretary. But first, he’s been tasked with...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThis fall, shortly after the election, the House passed a dangerous piece of legislation that many are calling the “nonprofit killer” bill. The bill has an incongruous title: the “Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act.” Among other things,...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyTen years ago, the U.S. and Cuba announced the start of normalization between our two countries. Americans and Cubans alike could see a bit of light through a crack in the wall of U.S. restrictions that, for six decades, have blocked normal interaction between close...
