What Critics Still Get Wrong About Marijuana Legalization

| Feb 25, 2026 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBy most measures, cannabis legalization is a resounding success for the 24 states (plus D.C.) that have implemented it. That’s why no state has ever repealed its legalization laws, and public support for the policy remains near all-time highs. Nonetheless, the policy...

Beware of AI Swill

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedGeorge Orwell spoke bluntly about the nefarious nature of advertising, calling it “the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.” Even Orwell, though, would’ve been astonished by the cacophony of swill bucket advertising currently being blasted at us by Amazon,...

Keeping Our Promise To Veterans Includes Funding Transit

| Feb 19, 2026 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen we talk about keeping faith with our veterans, we often focus on health care, housing, and jobs. But there’s a quieter, less visible barrier standing between millions of veterans and the benefits they earned: transportation. For too many veterans — especially...

Public Health Reduces Drug Deaths. Wars Don’t.

| Jan 7, 2026 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedRepublicans have defended Trump’s illegal invasion of Venezuela as necessary to solve the drug overdose crisis. For instance, Vice President J.D. Vance posted on Twitter/X, “cocaine, which is the main drug trafficked out of Venezuela, is a profit center for all of the...

The Clock Is Ticking: Invest in the Planet, Not the Pentagon

| Dec 17, 2025 | Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / SecurityTen years ago as of December 2025, nearly every country in the world made a promise. By signing the Paris Agreement, governments committed to limit global temperature rises to no more than 2°C — and ideally 1.5°C — to avoid the most devastating impacts of a warming...

Save Our Forests, One Roll at a Time

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedNorth America’s boreal forests are crucial for wildlife and the climate, but we’re literally trashing them to make pulp for toilet paper and other disposable paper products. Companies are clear-cutting a million acres a year, according to a new report from the Natural...