| Jul 10, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you’ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe. Recently in...
| Jun 26, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedI spent the summer of 2015 knocking on doors across Cincinnati. As a rising college sophomore, I’d joined a group called Ohio Citizen Action to canvass for my community and the planet. That year, the Ohio River was the most polluted body of water in the nation. Named...
| Jun 5, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyFrom the very start of our nation, the most popular forum for debating and shaping our democratic rights was not stately legislative halls, but rowdy beer halls. Indeed, “pub democracy” remains strong across our country, as is now being shown by a hardy group of...
| May 8, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedAcross the country, you’ll find millions of working families whose wages haven’t budged in a generation, even as the cost of living has skyrocketed. Many of these same communities are now getting hit hardest by floods, droughts, storms, and other climate disasters....
| May 1, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyI’m a retired public school teacher living in Des Moines. I grew up here close to the city limits, with an easy escape to the countryside that was once dotted with miles and miles of small family farms. The sight and even the smells of those small farms were a welcome...