| Aug 13, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI’m about to start law school at Georgetown. I’m proud of myself for getting this far, but it hasn’t been easy — I’ve faced significant financial and social challenges throughout my entire admissions process. Black, low-income, and other marginalized students often...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe new tax law President Trump and congressional Republicans passed this summer drastically reduces taxes on the wealthiest, slashes essential spending, and adds over $4 trillion to the deficit over a decade. The law weakens health care and food assistance more than...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThis spring, a 19-year old university student named Ximena Arias-Cristobal was sent to an immigrant detention center in Dalton, Georgia for an alleged traffic violation. The traffic charges were eventually dropped when it was revealed police had confused...
| Jul 30, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe Democratic Party lost big in 2024. If it hopes to bounce back, making inroads with the working class is the only way possible — and a new report from the Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin shows that economic populism is the best path to bring them...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPunishing people for being poor doesn’t make them less poor. And jailing someone who’s homeless doesn’t make them housed. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s new executive order does: it makes criminals out of people trying to survive our nation’s housing...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA deadly fire at Gabriel House, an assisted living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, claimed 10 lives this July. In the aftermath, horrific scenes emerged of elderly residents trapped inside smoke-filled rooms and hanging out of windows, desperate for rescue....
