| Mar 26, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE have begun dismantling the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), beginning with 6,700 layoffs. Their stated plan is to cut half of the agency’s workforce. Their biggest cuts appear to be in the Large Business and International...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump’s second term has made clear how much we need the courts to uphold the rule of law — and what a difference that makes to our everyday lives. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are targeting institutions and programs that provide vital public services. They’re...
| Mar 19, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySeventy percent of Americans, including majorities of both Democratic and Republican voters, say that marijuana should be legal. Yet far too often, lawmakers choose to either ignore this constituency or treat them with outright hostility. In Republican-led states like...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyNo matter who we voted for, no one wants to see our grandparents forced onto the street, our schools without teachers, or our babies dying because there are no more hospitals. Yet all of these things will happen in the United States if deep cuts to essential programs...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyLess than a week after President Trump boasted that he’d “brought back free speech,” government agents abducted a student protestor and are trying to deport him. On March 8, without a warrant or charges, plainclothes Department of Homeland Security agents forced their...
| Mar 13, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyTens of millions of Americans rely on the public assistance programs — like Medicaid, SNAP, housing aid, and more — that Republican leaders are now threatening to gut. I’m one of them. My dream is to regain the financial independence I once enjoyed before life and...
