| Mar 16, 2022 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyCongress recently announced a bipartisan budget deal to fund the federal government through 2022. It’s a lopsided budget if there ever was one. Even after America’s longest war in Afghanistan ended last year, military spending isn’t going down. In fact, it’s...
| Mar 9, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWhy are so many employers struggling to find workers right now? One reason is the unprecedented federal backlog of work permits for immigrants. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that issues these permits, is sitting on 1.4 million...
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| Mar 2, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMoms of trans kids are so tired. We can’t keep living in flight or fight mode. We need you. I’m a Christian, a nurse, and a hard working, loving mom of seven children. One of them, my 11-year-old daughter Kai, is transgender. She’s happy and healthy, with a huge...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyNo one can seriously dispute that Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, is a brilliant and eminently qualified candidate. Jackson has had a distinguished 10 year career as a respected federal judge. Before that, the Harvard Law...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe word “jobs” came up 15 times in President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech – more times than even the word “America.” That’s hardly surprising, since job creation is a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy time for the United States and the world. The U.S....