| Aug 28, 2018 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn the last days of his life, an old video of John McCain surfaced on the internet. It’s 2008. He’s running for president and fielding questions from voters in Minnesota. A middle-aged woman takes the microphone. “I can’t trust Obama,” she complains of McCain’s...
| 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...
| Jun 13, 2018 | HP FeaturedSome critics have knocked President Trump for making “too many concessions” to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the historic Singapore Summit — the first-ever meeting between a U.S. president and North Korean leader. Trump’s foreign policy instincts have had me...
| Apr 11, 2018 | Economy / Business|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyHow much of your paycheck do you plan to hand over to corporate Pentagon contractors this year? The average American taxpayer will have paid $14,520 in federal income taxes in 2017. And that’s not even including the taxes that every working person pays to take care of...
| | 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...
