| Jan 12, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Joe Biden’s recent visit to Atlanta, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s hometown, focused national attention on a somber fact: the legacy of the civil rights movement is threatened by recent and ongoing attacks on voting rights. Sitting on the campus of Morehouse...
| Nov 3, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyInvestigative accounts of the Trump administration, like the recent Washington Post feature on the January 6 insurrection, routinely write about three kinds of conservatives. First, there are the few who took a stand for democracy who have sacrificed their political...
| Mar 17, 2021 | Rights / DemocracyIn February, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ran off to a luxury resort in sunny Cancún, Mexico during the deep freeze that devastated millions of his constituents. But I wasn’t mad that Ted fled. What upset me was that the government let him back into our country. Cruz is,...
| Nov 18, 2020 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAmerica owes its Black citizens so much. During a pandemic that has killed Black people at disproportionate rates, we still managed to save our democracy by getting out the vote in what may have been the most contentious presidential election in modern history....
| Jan 21, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyTen years ago, in January 2010, the Supreme Court released its disastrous Citizens United decision. The court, either through remarkable naivety or sheer malevolence, essentially married the terrible idea that “money is speech” to the terrible idea that “corporations...