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Trump’s Tax Law Clobbers State Budgets. Now’s the Time to Prepare.

Trump’s Tax Law Clobbers State Budgets. Now’s the Time to Prepare.

| Aug 13, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe new tax law President Trump and congressional Republicans passed this summer drastically reduces taxes on the wealthiest, slashes essential spending, and adds over $4 trillion to the deficit over a decade. The law weakens health care and food assistance more than...
Kids With Autism Deserve Care, Not Cuts

Kids With Autism Deserve Care, Not Cuts

| Jul 23, 2025 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI recently read over my son’s last report card and was overwhelmed with pride. It showed how far he’s come — progress that, not long ago, felt out of reach. I made mental notes of the areas where we still need to do some work, but mostly I just sat with the joy of...
More Americans Can Get Compensated for Nuclear Poisoning — But There’s a Catch

More Americans Can Get Compensated for Nuclear Poisoning — But There’s a Catch

| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThis July marked 80 years since the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb in the desert of southern New Mexico, marking the start of the nuclear age — and an ongoing nightmare for the people who call the area home. That test, known as Trinity, blanketed...
10 Ways the GOP Budget Will Make Life Worse for Americans

10 Ways the GOP Budget Will Make Life Worse for Americans

| Jul 9, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which narrowly passed Congress and was recently signed by President Trump, represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery. Here are just 10 of the worst things about it. 1. It’s going to...
Trump’s Budget Will Devastate Health Care for Rural Families Like Mine

Trump’s Budget Will Devastate Health Care for Rural Families Like Mine

| Jul 2, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyFor generations, my family has lived in a rural Alabama county with just one community hospital, with 107 beds to service 60,000 people. Among those 60,000, 19 percent of individuals are covered by Medicaid — including my mom, sisters, aunts, and uncles. The hospital...
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