Trump’s Budget Will Devastate Health Care for Rural Families Like Mine

| Jul 2, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyFor generations, my family has lived in a rural Alabama county with just one community hospital, with 107 beds to service 60,000 people. Among those 60,000, 19 percent of individuals are covered by Medicaid — including my mom, sisters, aunts, and uncles. The hospital...

Regulate AI — for the Sake of Our Jobs, Brains, and Planet

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedEverywhere we look, AI is treated like an inevitability. AI companies like ChatGPT and Open AI are expanding rapidly, and many Americans rely on AI assistants such as Alexa and Siri in their day-to-day lives. For some college students, not relying on AI can feel like...

70 Million Disabled Americans Could Soon Lose Our Rights. I’m One of Them.

| Jun 25, 2025 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI spent every bit of free time in my final semester at Villanova University fighting a lawsuit that could make life for me as a disabled American very difficult. As a low vision student, I’ve relied on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for nearly my entire...

Let’s Get Child Labor Off Our Dinner Plates

| Jun 12, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedWhen deciding what to make for dinner, many of us think about how to balance making something affordable, delicious, and healthy. And we might consider ethical questions, like whether our food is locally sourced, our meat is humanely raised, or our meals have a low...

We Have a Choice: Weapons and War, or Food and Health Care?

| Jun 11, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor weeks, Congress has been wrapped up in passing President Trump’s big, brutal budget — the one that pays for tax cuts for the wealthy and a trillion-dollar Pentagon budget by taking food stamps and Medicaid away from people struggling to get by. The GOP-controlled...

Public Transit Is In Crisis. Congress Can Fix It.

| May 21, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedTransit is essential. It’s how we get to health care appointments, parks, school, and work. Essential workers, small businesses, and under-served communities throughout the country depend on transit. Transit is a key component of economic opportunity, jobs, and a more...