| Apr 4, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyAt a recent rally in New Hampshire, Donald Trump called for the death penalty for drug traffickers as part of a plan to combat the opioid epidemic in the United States. At a Pennsylvania rally a few weeks earlier, he called for the same. Now his administration is...
| Feb 14, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyRecently Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave Americans suffering severe pain some advice: “People need to take some aspirin sometimes and tough it out a little.” As someone who has suffered chronic pain for over 20 years, his remarks make me very angry....
| Nov 22, 2017 | Peace / Security|Rights / Democracy“We’ve had a great relationship,” exulted a giddy Donald Trump, following his two-day schmoozefest in Manila with the thuggish Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte, who calls himself a “toughie,” brags that he’s personally...
| Mar 22, 2017 | Environment / HealthAttorney General Jeff Sessions recently called marijuana use a “life-wrecking dependency” that is “only slightly less awful” than heroin. Really? If that were true, maybe my little brother would be alive. I don’t know the full story of my...
