| May 21, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWhen our loved ones join the military, we know that wearing the uniform could cost them their lives. Military family members do all kinds of calculations about the potential price of serving this nation. We run the numbers and wargame the risks; we bargain with God...
| May 15, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe Democratic primaries are heating up. One notable feature of the race is the strong presence of progressive candidates — which has many in the establishment wing of the party worried. Former president Barack Obama, whose moderate vice president Joe Biden is now in...
| May 8, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA bill in Texas would allow professionals of all kinds — doctors, pharmacists, electricians — to deny services to LGBTQ customers on religious grounds. This comes alongside the Trump administration’s rollout of a rule that would allow health care providers to actually...
| May 3, 2019 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyWhat mother on earth doesn’t want equality and health for her child? I certainly do. I gave birth nearly two decades ago to a healthy, beautiful, intelligent child, who cried more than I thought she would and whose tutu-wearing terrible twos persisted into her...
| May 1, 2019 | Economy / Business|Rights / Democracy“Socialism,” snarled Donald Trump at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. The obedient crowd of Trumpistas snarled back in unison: So-sh’ll-izz-ummm! There you have the entire intellectual content of the GOP’s 2020 re-election strategy under...