| Aug 14, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedOn Thursday, July 12th, a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic proved it was on the right side of history. The Republic of Ireland passed a bill to divest its $370 million worth of investments in around 150 fossil fuel companies within five years. Should the bill...
| Aug 4, 2018 | Environment / HealthTo my five-year-old son: By the time you’re my age, the year will be 2051. I don’t know what the planet will look like. And that scares me. Today, it’s obvious that nature is changing too fast, too much. Of course, nature’s not the culprit. We are. Humans. Your...
| Jul 3, 2018 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe news hurts. I can’t handle watching it because it hurts. I can’t deal with seeing Facebook posts about it. I can’t even hear jokes about it from Stephen Colbert. It’s not funny. It just hurts. Sometimes I think it would hurt less if I were...
| Jun 20, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe Koch brothers’ extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns has always been inextricably entwined with the profiteering agenda of their wholly-owned, $100-billion-a-year industrial conglomerate. The...
| May 16, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThousands of civil rights advocates, low-wage workers, and religious leaders kicked off massive protests on May 14, launching a 40-day campaign across the nation in an effort to revive Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign. The Poor People’s Campaign brings...
