Four Ways to Fight Racism in Your Town

| Jun 24, 2020 | Editors Picks|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor weeks since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protests have erupted across the globe. While demonstrations in larger cities have drawn the most attention in the U.S., smaller communities can be — and are — involved in the fight for racial justice....

Defund the Police, Invest in Communities

| Jun 10, 2020 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFive years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division released a damning report on the Ferguson, Missouri police department. “Ferguson’s law enforcement practices are shaped by the city’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs,” the...

Going Back to Work in a Pandemic

| Jun 3, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyI’m terrified of going back to work. It’s hard enough for the kids — missing school, missing friends, and now taking care of each other as I’m forced back to work in an environment where I don’t feel safe. Now they’re worried about me getting sick too, or bringing the...

I Remember the Lynchings of the 1960s. They’re Still Happening.

| | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyI was naive until I wasn’t. At just 18, the day after I graduated from high school, I drove from Boston to Atlanta to work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Two weeks later, on June 21, 1964, we got word that three young civil rights...

To Save Lives — and Democracy — We Need to Vote by Mail

| May 20, 2020 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFor many Americans, vote-by-mail will be a matter of life and death come November. In a pandemic, it is immoral to force voters to choose between their health and their freedom to vote. And it is immoral to knowingly trigger a major outbreak of the coronavirus when...

A Simple Solution for the Coronavirus Crisis in Prisons

| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’ve ever had a parent or loved one incarcerated, you know how scary it can be. There’s so much that can go wrong in prison, and neither you nor your loved one have much control over it. Thanks to mass incarceration, millions live with this fear every day — 64...