By Charles McCollester President Trump’s government shutdown was a cheap, tawdry, fear-mongering piece of blackmail designed to assert his will over Congress and possibly impose a shameful border wall, even if it […]
Yemen Can’t Wait
By Joyce Rothermel Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, is currently facing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis; the United Nations reports that half of the population is already facing pre-famine […]
The De-evolution of Pro-Life Policy
By Cheryl Bauer As a middle-school student in the mid-90’s, I was introduced to the pro-life movement by a Catholic friend. She enlightened me to the grisly process of partial-birth abortion, and […]
From Nuclear Insanity to N. Korean-US Summit: A Surreal Journey
By Michael Drohan It is a mere few months since President Trump promised to obliterate North Korea off the face of the earth, as he would visit on them “fire and fury […]
And The Winner Is…
BY BETTE MCDEVITT Sorry, folks, it’s not you. It’s Lockheed. In the recent 1.3 trillion dollar budget, the defense contractors will share a large hunk of our tax money; $700 billion dollars, […]
Bad Budgets = Bad Results
This is a set of articles in which leaders of local service organizations describe the possible impacts of proposed federal budget cuts on the services they provide and the issues that concern […]
Food Security Safety Net in Jeopardy; You Can Help
May 5, 2017 By Joyce Rothermel Global efforts, including that of the United States, have made great progress toward ending hunger and poverty over the last three decades. Around the world […]
Human Rights Are Unconditional
May 4, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman In addition to being a racist system that intentionally targets people of color through “broken-windows policing”, stop-and-frisk policies, and racial profiling, the prison industrial complex is […]
Incentivizing Racism: U.S. Prison-Industrial Complex
May 4, 2017 By Jacqueline Souza Before the 2017 Academy Awards, I watched a number of the documentaries that had been nominated for my favorite category, Best Documentary. One of those films, […]
Trump Budget and Tax Proposals: a Disaster in the Making
April 28, 2017 By Molly Rush Up to now, little attention has been paid to President Trump’s proposed budget and its impact on most Americans. And that’s no accident. Trump’s has a […]
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