| Jan 30, 2019 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor some months now, Venezuela’s socialist government has lurched through a series of escalating crises — hyperinflation, mass protests, political violence — while both the government and its opposition have flirted with authoritarianism. It isn’t pretty — and to hear...
| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyCommunities like mine are dying. Steve King, the congressman who supposedly represents us in the Fourth District of Iowa, should be fighting for us in Washington. Yet he stays mostly silent about this crisis. Instead, King spouts racist rants about immigrants (whom he...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFormer Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz just announced he may run for president as an independent centrist candidate in 2020. I have some concerns about billionaires, however well-intentioned, running the country. For one thing, people generally pay a lot of attention to...
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| Jan 23, 2019 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe Supreme Court just paved the way for Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military to move ahead, at least pending other court challenges. The ban will harm the military and help no one, while doing nothing to address the nation’s real...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyWe either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or we fry. That’s the conclusion of another new blockbuster study on climate change, this one from the National Academy of Sciences. Our fossil-fuel industrial economy, the study details, has made for the fastest...
