| Jan 9, 2019 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWay back in 2014 — a century ago, it feels like — President Barack Obama requested time on major networks for an Oval Office address on immigration reform. Fearing the subject was too “political,” the broadcast networks declined, plying viewers instead with The Big...
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWhile Americans were quietly preparing to ring in the New Year, the EPA gave families a deadly present to start the year off wrong. On December 28, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal that would effectively weaken the Mercury and Air Toxics...
| | Rights / DemocracyI don’t think anyone in Washington is actually offended by Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s use of profanity. If you haven’t heard, Rep. Tlaib, a freshman Democratic representative from Michigan, said of the president, “We’re going to go in there and...
| | Editors Picks|Rights / DemocracyNews outlets are treating the Trump shutdown as a power struggle between two willful forces, the president and the Democrats — rather than the president’s disturbing rule-or-ruin strategy. Let’s call it what it is: extortion, an attack on our democracy and...
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| Dec 26, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Rights / DemocracyAmericans of all political stripes distrust the federal government. For years, the name of the nation’s capital has been used as shorthand for federal overreach and bloat. For most Americans, Washington, D.C. is hundreds of miles away — and a million ways...
