| Oct 23, 2018 | Editors Picks|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAs the GOP’s fears of a progressive wave in November grow, Donald Trump has made it his personal mission to make everyone else afraid, too. Over the past few week’s he’s been telling evermore fantastical tales of dangerous riffraff inching their way up to the U.S....
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyHighly charged midterm elections are just around the corner, and experts are predicting record-high midterm voter turnout. But millions of U.S. citizens are being systematically inhibited — either blatantly or covertly — from casting votes this November. Voter...
| Oct 17, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / Democracy Elizabeth Warren recently released DNA results as evidence she has a Native American ancestor. Trump, meanwhile, has been referring to Warren as “Pocahontas” to ridicule that claim. The two show useful examples of different kinds of racism. Trump’s...
| Sep 19, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyNike’s latest “Just Do It” ad campaign includes a number of A-list athletes: LeBron James, Serena Williams, Odell Beckham Jr. — and most controversially, Colin Kaepernick. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Kaepernick — who played quarterback...
| Sep 5, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThis summer featured at least a dozen stories of black Americans across the country having the police called on them for little or no reason at all. Famously, two black men in Philadelphia were arrested while simply waiting for a friend at a Starbucks. Then the police...
