| Oct 13, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyTexas’s cruel new anti-abortion law is more than just an unconstitutional restriction on reproductive choice. It’s also an egregious new frontier in late capitalism. In addition to banning abortion beyond six weeks into pregnancy, the Texas law allows private citizens...
| Sep 8, 2021 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBack in the 19th century, Texas was awash in vigilante groups. In those dark years, various self-appointed “law enforcers” modeled after the Texas Rangers embarked on a decades-long campaign of ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples in the western...
| Jun 16, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRonald Reagan, the most anti-woman president of the 20th century, was buried 17 years ago this June. Too bad his policies weren’t buried with him. Unfortunately, they’re still very much alive today. The Reagan “vision” for America, with its disproportionately...
| Sep 23, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn August 1993, the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg took her seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. I was two months old. You could say we both accomplished a lot that summer. Now, some 27 years later, the pair of us have accomplished so much more. Ginsburg composed some of...
| May 22, 2019 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyIn the past few weeks, my Facebook feed has exploded with posts about abortion. If you use Facebook, probably yours has too. There’s a lot to say about abortion, especially now that Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, and Ohio have passed extremely restrictive laws banning...
