Category: Heather Richardson
Massacre by Gun: How our free-for-all of violence is a symptom of the takeover by an extremist minority
For years now, after one massacre or another, I have written some version of the same article,...
Read More
Lost Youth: Why weakening child labor laws are part of state GOP efforts to gut the federal government
According to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, legislatures in at least ten states have...
Read More
Foreign policy for the middle class: Jake Sullivan outlines a different vision of economic leadership
“And that is the core of our economic approach. To build. To build capacity, to build...
Read More
Debt ceiling crisis brings differences between MAGA Republicans and Biden Democrats into sharp relief
The debt ceiling is not about future spending; future spending is debated when Congress takes up...
Read More
Marginalized and Silenced: Why Black Americans push for Democracy as a way to change the status quo
Justin J. Pearson, along with Representatives Justin Jones and Gloria Johnson, the Tennessee...
Read More
True Americanism: How pardoning traitors inspired the Jim Crow laws that corrupted a nation
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General...
Read More
