| Feb 21, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyEach year many Americans pay a steep cost when doing their taxes. It’s not just the money people shell out to use software to file taxes online, but also the time spent and the stress that comes with worrying an honest mistake will be held against them. Luckily,...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyHere’s our big word of the day: extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state have a right to enforce their laws in another state. Its most prominent was in the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required officials...
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| Feb 14, 2024 | RoundupThis week, we continue our look at the cost of living in America and the folks working to help more of us make it. If you’ve raised kids in the last few years, you know that child care is something else. You’re supposed to save a kid’s whole life for...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedPharmaceutical companies are angry with Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has vowed to force pharma CEOs to publicly answer for why their drug prices are so much higher in the United States than in other nations. Brazenly, the CEOs of Johnson & Johnson and Merck...