Moments Like Now Are Why We Have Courts

| Mar 26, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump’s second term has made clear how much we need the courts to uphold the rule of law — and what a difference that makes to our everyday lives. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are targeting institutions and programs that provide vital public services. They’re...

Marijuana Legalization Advocates Are the Majority. It’s Time We Act Like It.

| Mar 19, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySeventy percent of Americans, including majorities of both Democratic and Republican voters, say that marijuana should be legal. Yet far too often, lawmakers choose to either ignore this constituency or treat them with outright hostility. In Republican-led states like...

It’s Time to Go on Offense for Democracy

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyNo matter who we voted for, no one wants to see our grandparents forced onto the street, our schools without teachers, or our babies dying because there are no more hospitals. Yet all of these things will happen in the United States if deep cuts to essential programs...

The Persecution of Mahmoud Khalil Is a Threat to Free Speech Everywhere

| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyLess than a week after President Trump boasted that he’d “brought back free speech,” government agents abducted a student protestor and are trying to deport him. On March 8, without a warrant or charges, plainclothes Department of Homeland Security agents forced their...

Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does 

| Mar 12, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityThe paper sheet crinkled under me as I shifted on the vinyl examination table. The doctor paused. “Hmm,” she said quietly. This was January 2021. I’d patched together a few gigs since completing a masters degree program the previous year, but was still struggling to...

Federal Jobs Don’t Threaten the Economy, But Trump’s Tariffs Do

| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyElon Musk and Donald Trump have been axing the federal workforce based on the claim that the government is “bloated.” Now Trump’s blaming federal workers for a recession his own policies may be creating. As a candidate, Trump repeatedly promised to reverse inflation....