| Dec 13, 2023 | RoundupFor many of us, it might feel like the year is coming to a grim close. That’s certainly how it looks in Gaza, for example, as mournfully illustrated this week by cartoonist Khalil Bendib. What’s happening there may well meet the legal standard for...
| Dec 7, 2023 | RoundupNothing makes home feel like home like the holidays. This week, housing advocate Kazmyn Ramos writes about watching her family struggle to provide stable housing, working with housing insecure mothers, and pulling together with neighbors to provide for each other. As...
| Nov 29, 2023 | RoundupThe Pentagon just failed its sixth straight audit. But instead of a lump of coal, lawmakers are on track to award the agency another $840 billion, Lindsay Koshgarian writes this week — even though it already can’t account for nearly $2 trillion worth of taxpayer...
| Nov 15, 2023 | RoundupSomething remarkable happened this week across the South: Hundreds of call center workers walked off the job in state after state. They work with a company called Maximus, which the federal government contracts to field calls from patients seeking help with Medicare...
| Nov 8, 2023 | RoundupThis week, the House censured Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the only Palestinian American in Congress, in a disturbing rebuke of her calls for a ceasefire to stop the fighting in Gaza. But it’s the lawmakers who condemned Tlaib who should be chastened, Farrah...
| Oct 26, 2023 | RoundupAs the brutal war in Israel and Gaza drags on, the vast majority of U.S. policy makers have pledged aid and support to the Israeli government and shared their grief for the innocent Israelis who’ve been killed. Yet as thousands of equally innocent Palestinian...
