| Apr 30, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyPerhaps the most important consequence of Donald Trump’s presidency has been the federal judiciary’s rightward lurch. As of April 1, he’d appointed a record 39 far-right judges to lifetime posts on the Supreme Court and federal circuit courts — more than half the...
| | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe school year may be winding to a close, but the tired argument about “attacks on free speech” on college campuses is alive as ever. According to Donald Trump, liberal universities like Berkeley are allowing conservative students to be “assaulted” for sharing their...
| Apr 24, 2019 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyFats Domino sings: “I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill.” Maybe, but America’s richest corporate powers know precisely where to find their thrill: On Capitol Hill. They rushed there in 2017 with a passion hotter than high school love, spewing the pheromones of...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyHere’s a headline I saw recently: “Black female physicist pioneers technology that kills cancer cells with lasers.” And here’s a prediction: If the physicist had been a white man instead of a black woman, he would’ve been simply called a “physicist” — not a “white...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs a black woman who was raised in poverty, I understand what it means to face constant hardships. I grew up in a single parent household watching my mother’s mental health deteriorate over time. She relies on disability checks to support herself, so hasn’t been...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyEditor’s Note: This piece originally ran at OtherWords.org in April 2018. As the citizenship question goes before the Supreme Court, we’re re-publishing it in April 2019. We’re all used to chaos in Washington these days. Amidst it all, there’s...
