| Jan 9, 2019 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWay back in 2014 — a century ago, it feels like — President Barack Obama requested time on major networks for an Oval Office address on immigration reform. Fearing the subject was too “political,” the broadcast networks declined, plying viewers instead with The Big...
| | Editors Picks|Rights / DemocracyNews outlets are treating the Trump shutdown as a power struggle between two willful forces, the president and the Democrats — rather than the president’s disturbing rule-or-ruin strategy. Let’s call it what it is: extortion, an attack on our democracy and...
| Apr 25, 2018 | Rights / DemocracyRemember how Trump’s one main virtue as a leader was excelling in “the art of the deal”? Alas, the story of Trump the brash dealmaker famously told in The Art of the Deal was — as the author has revealed — not entirely truthful. Although apparently...