It was a cold February day in Salem, Oregon, and Republican state senators were fleeing the capitol. It was weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the country and kept Americans huddled inside. So members of Oregon’s legislature were still showing…

Three years after Hurricane Maria’s 155-mile-per-hour winds swept over Puerto Rico, the Trump administration last week announced two multi-billion dollar grants to help rebuild the island’s infrastructure, much of which was destroyed by the Category 5 storm, which also killed…