| Sep 3, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMy family and I finally secured stable housing again, years after being priced out of a duplex we’d been renting. I’m both relieved and worried. Now the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” threatens health care and food for my four kids — just to pay for massive tax breaks...
| Aug 27, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyShould your employer be allowed to ban you from taking another job? Most Americans would say that’s ridiculous — but it’s more common than you think. When I was head of the policy office at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), I read thousands of public comments about...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn a 2006 documentary, I assailed Texas Republican lawmakers for ramming a brutish gerrymandering scheme into law, doing my report from a street sign in central Austin. That sign was the exact location the GOP had used as the pin point for slicing up the city’s one...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySomething incredible happens to humans when we go through hard or tragic experiences together and survive. When we hold each other close and rely on each other, it bonds us. My early experiences taught me that even in dark times, we can find the strength to be good to...
| Aug 21, 2025 | HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard under the guise of restoring security in the nation’s capital — despite D.C.’s crime rate being at a 30-year low. What began as a deployment of 800 D.C. National Guard troops has grown to encompass 2,091 as of this...
| Aug 20, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI thought I knew a lot about displacement, housing insecurity, and homelessness. Then I experienced it for real. I grew up with a roof over my head and got my Ph.D., writing a dissertation about families displaced from their homes. But instead of the American Dream, I...
