| Feb 5, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOn January 20, ICE agents detained a five-year-old child just outside his home in Minnesota. The child was used as “bait” to try to draw family members out of their home. A widely circulated photo of the boy being apprehended, with his Spiderman backpack and fuzzy...
| Feb 4, 2026 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn late 2025, federal immigration authorities detained a non-union janitor who’d accused contractors for Minnesota’s Ramsey County of wage theft. The worker is now in deportation proceedings. But his courage helped win policy changes in Ramsey County, and his fierce...
| Jan 26, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFrom 1920 until 1938, a flag on Fifth Avenue in New York City proclaimed an uncomfortable reality to passers-by on New York’s busy streets: “A man was lynched yesterday.” In the South, where Jim Crow held a vice grip on the government 60 years after the end of the...
| | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMore Americans now support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) than keeping it. A January 13, 2026 Economist/YouGov poll found that 46 percent want to eliminate ICE, compared to 43 percent who support preserving it. It’s a trend that’s been growing...
| Jan 14, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOn January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis — a city long enriched by immigrants and now under assault from thousands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents. Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother of...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityIs the illegal U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and kidnapping of its president, a “war for oil”? To some extent, this is a reductionist debate. There are often multiple motivations for war, and there clearly are several here. Some in the administration are stuck in Cold...
