| 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...
| Feb 8, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyA year ago, my husband Jorge was torn from our family and deported to Mexico after living peacefully in the United States for nearly 30 years, working and raising a family with me in suburban Detroit. Just a few weeks later, I was invited by my congresswoman to attend...
