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...

10 Ways the GOP Budget Will Make Life Worse for Americans

| Jul 9, 2025 | 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...

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...

A Nation of Immigrants Under Attack

| Jun 25, 2025 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAcross the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are tearing families apart, terrorizing communities, and upending businesses. Mario Romero was among those arrested by ICE recently. His daughter, Yurien Contreras, witnessed ICE agents taking him...

Americans Joyfully and Peacefully Affirm: No Kings Here

| Jun 18, 2025 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyWhat a hopeful sight! My social media on June 14 and 15 was filled with people sharing pictures from “No Kings” gatherings. Aerial photos of massive crowds in big cities. Snapshots of surprisingly large turnouts in small conservative communities. Sidewalk gatherings...

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...