| Sep 13, 2023 | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’re a parent or student in America this fall, watch out: “edutainment” could be coming to your school. What’s “edutainment”? It’s what PragerU, a business that is not a university at all but a media shop run by right-wing talk-show host Dennis Prager, calls its...
| Aug 23, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s now been 60 years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. At the rally, Dr. King famously proclaimed that all people, Black as well as white, have a “promissory note” from their...
| Jul 12, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyWho will benefit from the Supreme Court’s recent ruling striking down race as a factor in college admissions? Mostly, just wealthy white people. That’s because the ruling refused to touch so-called “legacy admissions.” Colleges are free to continue giving preferential...
| Jun 14, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyJuneteenth celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. But over 150 years later, discriminatory public policies have prevented African Americans from closing the racial wealth divide in this country they helped build. Policy created that divide — and...
| May 3, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOpponents of cannabis legalization frequently decry what they call a “rapid push” toward legalization in America. But to those of us who’ve spent decades fighting to end over a century of marijuana prohibition, these changes cannot come soon enough. The initial push...
