| 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...
| Jun 14, 2017 | Environment / HealthOn June 1, President Trump announced that he’ll withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. If that makes you mad, good. If that makes you outraged and disgusted, even better. We have good reason. Even for a president whose administration has...
| Feb 15, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyIn July 2016, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch committed the Department of Justice to investigating the shooting of Alton Sterling, a black man who was murdered by police outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge. The move represented the deepening of a tangible...
| Apr 27, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyIt wasn’t so long ago when one of the most powerful justifications wielded in support of segregation was religious belief. Throughout the American South, state-sanctioned Jim Crow laws legally separated blacks from whites. Schools were segregated. Restaurants...