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Immigrants Aren't the Emergency

Midland, Michigan, where my husband and I are raising our two young children, is a small town surrounded by rural communities. Many of us living here have seen, generation-by-generation, that we’re falling behind. Our anxiety is real, but we wholeheartedly reject...

Chicago’s Homeless Are Freezing and Dying

Jock Toles in Chicago. Photo credit: Diego Morales, Chicago DSA The polar vortex froze Chicago’s city streets with temperatures as low as minus 23 degrees. It was subzero for 52 hours straight. This was hard on everyone, but it hit the city’s 80,000 homeless the...

Standing Together on Trade With China

The trade relationship between China and America is destructive: China’s deliberate trade violations drain America’s strength. Beijing is to America what Delilah was to Samson. Chinese trade officials are in Washington, D.C., this week in high-stakes negotiations....

We Can Save Lives If We Confront Our Opioid Crisis

As a New York State Trooper handcuffed me at our State Capitol, I told him, “I lost my son. This is for him.” Alexis Pleus, founder of TruthPharm, under arrest at the N.Y. State Capitol in Albany Jeff was an amazing kid, a chef, who was 28 when he died of a heroin...

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