| Jun 13, 2018 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyBefore all the North Korea news hit, the last few weeks seemed to show another surprising turnaround for President Trump: some sympathy for criminal justice reform. After a visit from Kim Kardashian, the president commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a...
| | HP FeaturedSome critics have knocked President Trump for making “too many concessions” to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the historic Singapore Summit — the first-ever meeting between a U.S. president and North Korean leader. Trump’s foreign policy instincts have had me...
| Jun 6, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMost mornings lately, I’ve woken up to two things. First I hear my toddler, sounding off that it’s time to get up. Then I see the news stories about other toddlers our immigration authorities ripped away from their parents. For weeks, I’ve felt the gnawing need to...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs May gives way to June, the last college grad ceremonies are wrapping up and the last parties are coming to a close. Now the job hunt for recent grads begins in earnest — with the looming specter of student loan payments drawing ever closer. Today’s average...
| May 30, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracySylvia Bloom died in 2016, an unknown 96-year-old. Now the world knows all about her. The New York Times recently profiled the remarkable fortune Sylvia Bloom quietly accumulated over the course of her 67-year career as a legal secretary. That fortune totaled over $9...