| Mar 5, 2019 | Editors Picks|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe current administration has bent over backwards to force-feed its anti-immigrant agenda to the American public. That agenda remains broadly unpopular, but they’ve tried every trick in the con artist book to impose it anyway. Despite years of hysterical...
| Feb 8, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyA year ago, my husband Jorge was torn from our family and deported to Mexico after living peacefully in the United States for nearly 30 years, working and raising a family with me in suburban Detroit. Just a few weeks later, I was invited by my congresswoman to attend...
| Jan 30, 2019 | Rights / DemocracyTime for a pop quiz on Trump’s Wall. Question 1: How much will it cost us? Trump & Company says the price tag is $5.7 billion. But — pssssst — that only buys a starter wall of 230 miles, covering barely a tenth of our 2,000-mile Mexican border. The dirty little...
| Jan 23, 2019 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe United States, by all metrics, has one of the cruelest prison systems in the world. In addition to having 25 percent of the world’s prison population (with just 5 percent of the world’s people), U.S. prisons use tortuous solitary confinement, tolerate...