Op-Ed

Washington, October 22, 2018 – Yesterday, the New York Times reported on an effort by the Trump Administration to undermine protections against discrimination contained in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by “narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth.” This thinly veiled attack on transgender people amounts […]

Oct. 19, 2018 – Karen Miller is President, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1700 When I first started working at Greyhound 28 years ago, I was told that I would never be able to drive a bus. I’m a woman of color. But I got trained, and I became a bus driver. Soon after, I joined […]

Gayathri D Naik, SOAS, University of London October 19, 2018 – A family in India needs fresh water. But this family can’t just turn on a tap. Instead, the women in the household must walk to fetch it, sometimes travelling miles carrying plastic or earthenware pots, possibly with a child or two in tow, to […]

Oct. 18, 2018 – Russia, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia are the latest members of a select international club. Assassins Without Borders has roots that go back, in the modern era at least, to the policies of the Soviet Union, Chile, Israel, Bulgaria, and the United States. All of these countries share a single trait. […]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2018 – The Trump administration’s just-released regulatory roadmap leaves no stone unturned when it comes to rolling back safeguards designed to protect children, families and workers from exposure to dangerous chemicals. President Trump is proposing an array of actions that will leave more Americans exposed to toxic chemicals such as PFAS, drinking […]

Washington October 16, 2018 – Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released the following statement on reports that Turkey may have evidence that Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul: “The world has watched with disbelief as reports emerge about the apparent killing and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “The United States must […]

Oct. 12, 2018 – Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University and Contributing Editor of HNN. For a list of all of Moss’s recent books and online publications, click here. On October 8, 2018 the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report that an author of previous studies called “quite a […]

Oct. 12, 2018 – The Trump Justice Department has approved a $69 billion merger between CVS, the nation’s largest drugstore chain, and insurance giant Aetna. It’s the largest health insurance deal in history. Executives say the combination will make their companies more efficient, allowing them to gain economies of scale and squeeze waste out of the system. […]

Washington, D.C. Oct. 9, 2018 – Today, ExxonMobil announced a $1 million donation to an effort backing carbon taxes. The announcement follows a devastating IPCC report revealing society has a mere 12 years to start rapidly phasing out fossil fuels to limit the worst of the climate chaos ahead.  In response, Food & Water Watch […]

Oct. 5, 2018 –Vice President Mike Pence signaled a tougher approach to China this week, delivering a speech in which he is accused China of pursuing “predatory” economic practices, engaging in military aggression toward the United States in the South China Sea and making attempts to sway public opinion of President Trump. Allen Carlson is […]

Lewis Borck, Leiden University and D. Shane Miller, Mississippi State University October 8, 2018 – When President Barack Obama created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the 2012 program that offered undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children a path into society, for a moment the ideals of the American Dream seemed, at least […]

Oct. 3, 2018 – Rick Shenkman is the publisher of the History News Network and the author of Political Animals:  How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics (Basic Books, January 2016), from which this article is drawn. You can follow him on Twitter. He blogs at stoneagebrain. We go through this […]

Oct. 7, 2018 – The recent announcement by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, that his company would give substantial raises to its lowest-paid employees should not blind us to the fact that most American workers are not receiving big wage increases. In fact, the real wages (that is, wages adjusted for inflation) of average American workers […]

Oct. 7, 2018 – William Lambers is an author who partnered with the UN World Food Program on the book “Ending World Hunger.” His writings have been published by the NY Times, Huff Post, The Hill, Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer and many other media outlets. National School Lunch week is here (October 15-19), a time […]

Washington, D.C. October 6, 2018 – Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice, released the following statement in reaction to the Senate’s vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh this afternoon: “We at Earthjustice are ashamed. The process to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was an affront to the bedrock principles of fairness and justice […]

Oct. 5, 2018 – Following is the statement of Frederick Isasi, JD, MPH, executive director of Families USA Washington, D.C. Oct. 5, 2018 —Today, the Trump administration formally proposed unprecedented new restrictions on legal immigrant families. The proposed regulation targets lawfully-present immigrants by undermining their ability to access basic needs, including health care, food, and […]

Oct. 5, 2018 – In awarding the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Nadia Murad and Dr. Denis Mukwege, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has made an important and timely decision to honor the survivors of sexual violence in war and those who work to assist them. As a survivor turned advocate, Murad provided a ray of […]