| Jun 24, 2026 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyTwo hundred fifty years ago, Americans rejected monarchy. They rejected the idea that power should rest in the hands of one person, one family, or a distant ruling class. Instead, they enshrined an American promise: legitimate power comes from the people. Our...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe red emergency light is flashing on America’s democracy dashboard, like a damaged aircraft teetering toward a mountain. Elon Musk becoming the planet’s first trillionaire should make us tremble for the future of self-governing republics. It’s as if we’re bringing...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyTwo years ago this summer, the Supreme Court paved the way for more states and cities to fine or jail people for the “crime” of not having a roof over their head. In their June 28, 2024 Grants Pass v. Johnson decision, the court ruled that an Oregon city’s ordinance...
| Jun 18, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump has made historically steep cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and other programs, claiming we can’t afford them. Yet at the same time he and his Republican allies have plowed record sums into ICE, even as popular support for the agency has plunged. In June,...
| | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedStep right up folks! Please don’t crowd! No need to shove, plenty here for everyone! Welcome to the AI boom! Silicon Valley billionaires are now proposing a scheme to deliver an unbelievable windfall to “every citizen.” Tech titans like Sam Altman of OpenAI are...
| Jun 10, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySix right-wing Supreme Court justices just required that elections in Alabama be carried out using plainly racist maps designed to eliminate a Black-majority congressional district. It was an extraordinary move in the wake of the Court’s already extraordinary decision...
