by Jon Queally | Jul 24, 2019 | Blog, Featured
After the questions and answers are complete, then what? Former special counsel Robert Mueller will testify before Congress in a pair of public hearings on Wednesday as he answers questions from lawmakers in both major parties who are eager to hear him say out...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health, Inequality, Opioid Crisis
Last week didn’t go so well for the Mexican druglord Joaquín Guzmán Loera. A federal district court sentenced the notorious “El Chapo” to life in prison. The 62-year-old will almost certainly, notes the New York Times, be “spending the rest of his life behind bars.”...
by James Mumm | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Featured
I listen to a lot of very heavy Doom Metal music, and let me tell you - it feels a lot more hopeful than what our most insightful climate writers have to say right now. Their mood is grim, folks. They fear the game of life is up. But there is one thing that unites...
by Jeff Vogel | Jul 19, 2019 | Blog, Featured
We’ve been celebrating Columbus Day as a national holiday for over 80 years now. But if we truly want to celebrate the discovery of a “new world,” we’d reevaluate this annual ritual and start celebrating another historic journey instead — one we could start marking...
by Peter Certo | Jul 18, 2019 | #PeoplesWave, Election, Featured, Gender Justice, Politics
You’ve heard the cliche: If you’re taking heat from “both sides,” you must be doing something right. It’s dubious advice, but it fits pretty well for “the Squad” — the progressive first-year Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan...
by Rose Ramirez, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad | Jul 17, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Housing
In 1968 — just a week after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination — Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, or FHA. The law secured everyone’s right to housing regardless of race, national origin, disability, familial status, sex, or religion. The FHA protects people...
