| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMidland, Michigan, where my husband and I are raising our two young children, is a small town surrounded by rural communities. Many of us living here have seen, generation-by-generation, that we’re falling behind. Our anxiety is real, but we wholeheartedly...
| 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 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyCommunities like mine are dying. Steve King, the congressman who supposedly represents us in the Fourth District of Iowa, should be fighting for us in Washington. Yet he stays mostly silent about this crisis. Instead, King spouts racist rants about immigrants (whom he...