| Jul 25, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyJuly 30 marks a very important anniversary in our modern political history. Fifty-three years ago in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law, creating two programs that would disproportionately improve the lives of older and low-income...
| Jul 20, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyMy state, Tennessee, has the highest rate of hospital closures per capita of any state in the nation. Meanwhile, neighboring Arkansas — which has expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act — has experienced zero hospital closures since expansion. Those were the...
| | Environment / Health|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyFor my family, “pre-existing conditions” are more than a technicality. They’re a matter of life or death, of sickness or health. My wife and I are Iowa family farmers. I have diabetes, and Kristi has a heart murmur. Without the Affordable Care Act...
| Jul 18, 2018 | Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedThis week, I thought I would write about food stamps and farmers markets. People on food stamps, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), receive their benefits on a card that can be read like a credit card. Crucial to allowing...
| Jul 17, 2018 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh isn’t just a likely vote against Roe, or an enabler of brash executive authority. He’s also a vocal supporter of a conservative legal “philosophy” that’s designed to block action...
| Jul 3, 2018 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe news hurts. I can’t handle watching it because it hurts. I can’t deal with seeing Facebook posts about it. I can’t even hear jokes about it from Stephen Colbert. It’s not funny. It just hurts. Sometimes I think it would hurt less if I were...
