| Jan 9, 2019 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWay back in 2014 — a century ago, it feels like — President Barack Obama requested time on major networks for an Oval Office address on immigration reform. Fearing the subject was too “political,” the broadcast networks declined, plying viewers instead with The Big...
| Aug 15, 2018 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOn an otherwise sleepy August day, President Trump signed the John McCain National Defense Authorization Act. Named for the dying Arizona senator who’s championed military budgets for his entire career, the bill increases U.S. military spending to an astonishing $717...
| Jul 11, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBefore major news organizations pronounce someone dead, they ought to check the person’s pulse. Take, for example, a recent New York Times screed prematurely pronouncing the Our Revolution political organization — launched only two years ago by veterans of the...
| Apr 11, 2018 | Economy / Business|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOne of the most effective rhetorical tools in normalizing massive military budgets is to treat spending billions — and sometimes trillions — of dollars as something one has to do in order to be “modern.” “Modernization” is, after all, an...
| Aug 9, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s long been clear that if we want to avoid catastrophic climate disruption on a scale that threatens human civilization, we need to leave vast amounts of fossil fuels in the ground. Environmental writer Bill McKibben pointed out the math in a crucial 2012...
