| Mar 17, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs Americans do everything they can to stay safe and limit their exposure to COVID-19, we are seeing more clearly the great divides in our society. While the virus doesn’t discriminate, we are seeing that its impacts certainly do. In a pandemic, there’s a huge...
| Mar 11, 2020 | Rights / DemocracySix years ago, I messed up. In 2014 I started grad school. I went to the first school event for new students and told another student an anecdote about my study abroad in China in 2000. I told the story exactly as I always had — and I used a bad Chinese accent and...
| | Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMy granddaughter’s school has planned a trip to Thailand. Two things worry me. First, that she or her classmates might be exposed to or catch the coronavirus. Second, that if they did, President Trump would try his best to keep them from returning to the United...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBirmingham, Alabama is a landmark city for the American civil rights movement. Even today, it’s ground zero for a vital fight over voting rights. I visited Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham recently to deliver inmates a simple message: you are free to vote, even if...
| Mar 3, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe 2020 presidential campaign is well underway, and it’s noisy. Candidates make promises, break promises, offer assurances, and spin the news constantly. What’s one way to get a clear look at their priorities? In the case of a sitting president, by looking at their...
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