| Jun 18, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityIsrael’s attack on Iran opens a huge danger of escalation in the Middle East. Israel has a long history of attacking Iran — including bombing Iranian facilities, assassinating Iranian leaders and scientists, launching cyberattacks, and more. Iran has on occasion...
| Jun 11, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor weeks, Congress has been wrapped up in passing President Trump’s big, brutal budget — the one that pays for tax cuts for the wealthy and a trillion-dollar Pentagon budget by taking food stamps and Medicaid away from people struggling to get by. The GOP-controlled...
| Jun 4, 2025 | Food / Farming|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyElon Musk has left the White House, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. But of all the actions Musk and President Trump set in motion before their recent rupture, nothing will hurt more people around the world than their dismantling of the U.S. Agency for...
| Apr 23, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyI recall seeing a sign in a yard in my small hometown of around 12,000 residents. “No matter where you are from,” it said, “we’re glad you are our neighbor.” It was positioned defiantly, facing a Trump sign that had been plunged into the neighbor’s yard across the...
| Apr 9, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyEach year for Tax Day, my colleagues and I at the Institute for Policy Studies release a tax receipt so you can learn where your taxes are actually going. This year, you may be more worried about the price of eggs than your tax dollars. But with President Trump now...
| Mar 19, 2025 | 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...
