| Mar 13, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIn his State of the Union address, President Biden called out “massive executive pay” and vowed to “make big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their share” of taxes. Corporate tax dodging and CEO pay have gotten so out of control that many major U.S....
| Feb 8, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Joe Biden took full advantage of his State of the Union address to celebrate his administration’s victories for hard-working U.S. families and set the tone for progress and possibility for the next two years. While the country is still suffering from...
| Mar 2, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe word “jobs” came up 15 times in President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech – more times than even the word “America.” That’s hardly surprising, since job creation is a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy time for the United States and the world. The U.S....
| Mar 3, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityThere was this moment during the State of the Union Address that I can’t stop thinking about. When President Trump spoke to army wife Amy Wiliams during his speech and told her he’d arranged her husband’s return home from Afghanistan as a “special surprise,” it was...
| Feb 5, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThere’s an image burned into my brain from childhood: the graffitied train tracks along the intersection of Fifth and Patterson in downtown Dayton, Ohio. It’s a slightly shabby landscape dotted by warehouses, churches, fast food restaurants, and — at the margins — an...