What ‘Abolish ICE’ Really Means

| Jul 31, 2019 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAs I stepped inside the Cannon House Office Building on a Tuesday in July, I felt like I was taking a step towards a more just world. The night before, when I told my mother I planned to participate in a “Never Again” protest as part of #JewsAgainstICE, she had one...

Retirement Shouldn’t Mean Poverty

| Jul 24, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyVivian Majors spent her life cleaning houses while her husband, Martin, worked as a carpenter.  Their bodies broke down in their 60s. Martin now lives in a nursing home and has Parkinson’s disease. Vivian, now 71, lives on her own and ekes by on a $960 in social...

To Save Rural Hospitals, Pass Medicare for All

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMedicare for All is a popular idea — 70 percent of Americans say they support it, including 52 percent of Republicans. Why? Because in red and blue states alike, they see the costs of a market-driven system that values profit over patients. There’s perhaps no state in...

A Trump Plan to Throw 55,000 Children Out of Their Homes

| Jul 16, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn 1968 — just a week after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination — Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, or FHA.  The law secured everyone’s right to housing regardless of race, national origin, disability, familial status, sex, or religion. The FHA protects people...

Return of the Poll Tax

| Jul 10, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe poll tax Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just signed into law may cost his state $365 million a year — indefinitely.  DeSantis and the GOP-led Florida legislature recently made quick work of dismantling Amendment 4, a voter-approved ballot initiative that would’ve...

Climate Change Is a Poor People’s Issue

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you’ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe.  Recently in...