| May 10, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyHeard any good jokes lately? Desiree Fairooz did. But laughing at it got her thrown in jail. That’s right: Fairooz was just convicted for laughing during the confirmation hearing of now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in January 2017. She’d attended the...
| May 3, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyThe gap between the rich and poor has been growing for decades. Some claim this growing gap is the natural result of smart, hard workers getting what they deserve (fabulous wealth) and lazy, mediocre workers getting what they deserve, too (poverty). This framing is...
| | Rights / DemocracyOur president says he wants to run the country like a business. But it turns out running the government isn’t like running a business after all. Trump, for his part, says he’s located the source of the problem: the Constitution. All those checks and...
| | Rights / DemocracyA half-dollar hardly counts as money these days — it won’t even buy a cup of coffee. But pssssst… here’s an amazing half-dollar bargain for you: A first-class postage stamp. For 50 cents, you get the stamp, 3 cents in change, and America’s phenomenal...
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| Apr 26, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyMy nieces, who range in age from 17 to 25, grew up in a very different world from the one I knew coming of age in the 1970s. For their entire lives, abortion has been legal. And Planned Parenthood and other women’s clinics have served as a steadfast source of health...
