| Dec 7, 2022 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySocial Security was on the ballot in Georgia’s December 6 run-off election. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock’s re-election victory there should be good news for Gold Star families, paralyzed veterans, seniors, and indeed all of Social Security’s over 65 million...
| Mar 29, 2022 | HP Featured|Rights / Democracy“Voter suppression” is a divisive and highly politicized term. But for the slate of bills Republicans are pushing across the country, it’s the only correct one. They’re introducing these bills in virtually every state, but three — Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin — are...
| Jan 12, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Joe Biden’s recent visit to Atlanta, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s hometown, focused national attention on a somber fact: the legacy of the civil rights movement is threatened by recent and ongoing attacks on voting rights. Sitting on the campus of Morehouse...
| Jun 30, 2021 | Rights / DemocracyRalph Waldo Emerson told of a dinner guest who went on and on about the virtue of honesty, offering his own life as a model of perfect rectitude. “The louder he talked of his honor,” said Emerson, “the faster we counted our spoons.” That’s my reaction to the cacophony...
| Apr 7, 2021 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyI believe in God and in the right to vote. Georgia’s recent election bill doesn’t just feel like an attack on democracy — it feels like an attack on my faith. The bill, formally SB 202, infamously makes it illegal to give people food or water while they’re waiting in...
