| Jun 10, 2020 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFive years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division released a damning report on the Ferguson, Missouri police department. “Ferguson’s law enforcement practices are shaped by the city’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs,” the...
| Aug 14, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOver the summer, the House voted to incrementally raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. If the Senate had passed the bill, it would have been the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade — far too long for residents of the 21 states that don’t have...
| Apr 3, 2019 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor years, most of the U.S. has been changing death penalty laws in the direction of phasing it out, or at least applying it in a more humane way. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. In 2005, another ruling...
| Nov 29, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / SecurityMarijuana legalization was among the big winners in this year’s elections. In Michigan, voters approved Proposal 1, legalizing the adult use, cultivation, and retail marketing of marijuana. Michigan is the first Midwestern state to legalize adult marijuana use and...
| Sep 27, 2017 | Peace / SecurityWhen Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was a candidate for president, he seemed uninterested in talking about foreign policy. Instead, Sanders cast himself as a progressive populist and focused almost exclusively on domestic issues, particularly speaking out against the...
