| Jan 13, 2021 | Rights / DemocracyWhat’s wrong with people? Has the savagery, selfishness, and raw, animal hatred within the human species finally come out of the darkness to devour our society? We’ve seen fanatics in MAGA caps rabidly cheering a tyrannical, lying, insane president. We’ve seen gangs...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyTwelve years ago, the inauguration of America’s first Black president had many Americans believing that a future free of racial discrimination and inequality was finally within reach. This year, as Obama’s former vice president Joe Biden takes office amid a surge in...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump won’t be around forever. But the political crises his attacks on democracy have caused will outlive his one-term presidency. For one thing, the nearly 150 congressional Republicans who supported his attempted coup will probably remain in office, even...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWhile the world is reeling from the pandemic and American democracy faces a profound crisis, corporate lobbyists have been focused on making taxpayers subsidize lavish lunches for wealthy executives. Their work paid off in the 11th-hour COVID-19 relief deal Congress...
| Jan 12, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn 1923, Hitler and the Nazis stormed a beer hall in Munich, Germany, from whence they planned to overthrow German democracy. The putsch failed ignominiously, and Hitler was briefly jailed. That, of course, was not the end of Adolf Hitler. America needs to remember...
