The Need for Supreme Court Reform Is Clearer Than Ever

| May 27, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyTo preserve our democracy, we must reform the Supreme Court. In its recent Louisiana v. Callais decision, the Court’s Republican majority completed its years-long campaign to neuter the Voting Rights Act. Not coincidentally, they dramatically tilted the electoral...

We’ve Survived Homelessness. Here’s What Helps People Escape.

| May 20, 2026 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBetween the three of us, we’ve experienced homelessness in Kentucky, Texas, and New York — different places, same crisis. We’ve all cycled through jails, emergency rooms, and shelters. We’ve all struggled with mental health, trauma, and drug use...

I Fled the USSR. That’s Why I Support Taxing Billionaires.

| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin is spending $57 million to defeat a proposed billionaire tax in California. “I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union,” he explained. “I don’t want...

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Want Your Water

| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn America’s frontier days, anyone diverting a town’s creek water to their private, profiteering purpose was not merely considered wrong, but guilty of Biblical-level immorality. That was BBE, however — “Before Billionaire Ethics.” Today, a cohort of über-rich...

The U.S. Must End Its Illegal Boat Strikes

| May 13, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe U.S. military has been carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific over the past nine months with impunity. On May 8, the U.S. military struck another boat in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one survivor. U.S. Southern...

She Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges.

| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWho of us has the right to live without fear? This is the question human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has asked fearlessly in El Salvador — the country of my birth — for decades. It’s a question we all need to ask ourselves in the United States as well. For speaking...