| Jan 7, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOne year ago this January, in one of the first acts of his second term, President Donald Trump issued blanket pardons, clemency, or commutations to those charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. These included unconditional pardons...
| Jan 6, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOne gift that 2025 gave us is clarity: President Trump’s rhetoric bears no resemblance to the reality of what he is doing to our country. We learned who really matters to Trump and the Republicans running Congress — the billionaire tech lords and big...
| Dec 17, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOn December 8th, the White House posted a video showcasing ICE’s cruelty set to the track of grammy-award winning artist SZA’s “Big Boys.” The video was captioned, “WE HEARD IT’S CUFFING SZN. Bad news for criminal illegal aliens. Great news for America.” SZA herself...
| Dec 10, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAt least four Supreme Court justices recently signaled their apparent agreement with Donald Trump’s effort to roll back the Fourteenth Amendment’s definition of American citizenship. The case at issue, Trump v. Barbara, involves birthright citizenship — the principle...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyGabriel Garcia-Aviles was a 56-year-old grandfather with a work permit who’d been living in the U.S. for over 30 years. He was a beloved member of his Southern California community. This fall, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Garcia-Aviles and...
| Dec 3, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you want to understand how the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority has undermined democracy, you need to understand the “shadow docket.” The shadow docket — as the court’s emergency docket has come to be known — is one of the more dramatic and corrupt ways that...