| Feb 12, 2025 | 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...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI lead the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, America’s Black think tank. When we opened our doors in 1970, there were only 1,469 Black elected officials in office across the United States. Today, there are over 10,000. These milestones are historic, yet...
| Jan 29, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen my multigenerational family of six evacuated our home this January, we wondered if the fires visible from our front porch would engulf our house as we fled. Text reports of friends losing homes bombarded my phone as we settled into a cramped hotel room for the...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyJust recently, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority agreed to hear a case that would allow parents to block schools from teaching their kids certain books if they go against the family’s “religious beliefs” regarding gender and sexuality. Some people may think...
