Kids With Autism Deserve Care, Not Cuts

| Jul 23, 2025 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI recently read over my son’s last report card and was overwhelmed with pride. It showed how far he’s come — progress that, not long ago, felt out of reach. I made mental notes of the areas where we still need to do some work, but mostly I just sat with the joy of...

More Americans Can Get Compensated for Nuclear Poisoning — But There’s a Catch

| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThis July marked 80 years since the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb in the desert of southern New Mexico, marking the start of the nuclear age — and an ongoing nightmare for the people who call the area home. That test, known as Trinity, blanketed...

The Texas Floods Are a Warning: Fund Public Services

| Jul 16, 2025 | Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyGrowing up in Texas, many of my summers were spent at summer church camps just like Camp Mystic, where 27 girls died in the recent flash floods. Over 130 people in central Texas have been confirmed dead overall. Had I been just a few years younger, it’s hard not to...

Politicians Are Betraying Gen Z on Climate

| Jul 9, 2025 | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedLike many other Gen-Zers, I have an interest in sustainability initiatives. Our rapidly changing climate — and our constant exposure to it on social media — encourages us to be more active in seeking out ways to reduce our environmental impacts. As more Gen-Zers enter...

10 Ways the GOP Budget Will Make Life Worse for Americans

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which narrowly passed Congress and was recently signed by President Trump, represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery. Here are just 10 of the worst things about it. 1. It’s going to...

The “Big Beautiful Bill” Will Subsidize the Billionaire Private Jet Class

| Jul 3, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe big Trump-GOP budget that recently passed Congress will slash trillions in taxes for billionaires and centi-millionaires while devastating services like Medicaid. Among those tax breaks for the ultra rich is a giveaway to the private jet lobby, which will force...