| Nov 7, 2018 | Rights / DemocracyWith the election over and a new Congress ready to be sworn in this January, I’m ready for a new, less toxic style of politics. Journalist McKay Coppins traces the toxic politics of today back to Newt Gingrich in the 1990s. Gingrich, he said, pioneered...
| Sep 26, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyChristine Blasey Ford has shown remarkable bravery in speaking out about an attempted rape she experienced over 35 years ago. But it’s hard not to fear what comes next. She will tell her story — one she no doubt remembers with painful clarity — but there will be no...
| Feb 7, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyIt’s odd that Washington Republicans are so loudly crowing about their passage of the Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax law. Odd because the people outside of Washington hate that law. Yes, hate. With a public approval rating of only 30 percent, the GOP’s trillion-dollar...
| Oct 11, 2017 | Economy / BusinessWhen Republican leaders tried to repeal health care in the spring and summer, many Americans raised the alarm and made a ruckus. We asked hard questions, looked at the independent analyses, held town halls, told our health care stories, and took to the streets....
| Dec 14, 2016 | Peace / SecurityEven in an election year as shot through with conspiracy theories as this one, it would have been hard to imagine a bigger bombshell than Russia intervening to help Donald Trump. But that’s exactly what the CIA believes happened, or so unnamed “officials brief on the...
