| Mar 26, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE have begun dismantling the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), beginning with 6,700 layoffs. Their stated plan is to cut half of the agency’s workforce. Their biggest cuts appear to be in the Large Business and International...
| Aug 4, 2021 | Economy / BusinessWhen I was a tyke, cowboy actors were marketed as role models for little backyard cowpokes like me. We could send off to get a certificate making us “Pals of the Saddle” or some such with Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, or others. Cute for a four-year-old. Less so for...
| Apr 24, 2019 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyFats Domino sings: “I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill.” Maybe, but America’s richest corporate powers know precisely where to find their thrill: On Capitol Hill. They rushed there in 2017 with a passion hotter than high school love, spewing the pheromones of...
| Jul 26, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedIn every community, there are nonprofit charities that serve real needs: local food pantries, programs addressing the opioid crisis, the Red Cross chapters that come to our aid after a storm. Charities provide vital services to the people and places they serve. These...
| Aug 23, 2017 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyNext time you reach for a cold beer on a hot summer day, you’ll have some uninvited drinking buddies: the beer barons. Two conglomerates now control 90 percent of U.S. beer production. They use their power to raise prices, squeeze out small brewers, and limit...
