| Feb 19, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityWith an annual budget rapidly approaching $1 trillion, the Pentagon already gets more discretionary tax dollars than any other agency. Now congressional Republicans are proposing to hike that figure by anywhere from $100 billion to $150 billion — while slashing...
| Feb 12, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedAbsent in the raging debate over trade policy and tariffs is a truth about the economy that those of us in poorer countries know all too well: U.S. corporations and their billionaire owners profit from massive supply chains that exploit low-wage workers in the Global...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyHere’s a strange question: Why is Elon Musk lying about Lutherans? The richest man on earth recently forced good people across the country to interrupt their community work to respond to his lies and threats. Lutheran social service agencies offer crucial assistance...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAcross the country, trans and nonbinary people and their families are reeling from President Trump’s cruel anti-trans executive orders, which restrict our access to passports, lifesaving healthcare, military service, athletics, and more. This builds off an election...
| Feb 5, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn this chaotic news cycle, America’s worst plane crash in a generation already feels a generation old. But the administration’s response to the tragic January collision that killed 67 people over the Potomac is worth revisiting. Not only because the loved ones of...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBefitting a presidency inaugurated by a parade of tech billionaires, President Trump has taken Mark Zuckerberg’s infamous “move fast and break things” approach to the opening weeks of his second term — and break things he has. Trump quickly handed over the federal...
