| Apr 17, 2024 | RoundupApril is Arab American Heritage Month. Her community has made countless contributions worth celebrating, columnist Farrah Hassen writes this week. But amid the suffering in Gaza, the celebration feels bittersweet at best. One thing she takes heart in, however, is the...
| | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyI’ve always known my Arab culture is worth celebrating. I heard it in Syrian tenor Sabah Fakhri’s powerful voice reverberating in my mom’s car on the way to piano lessons and soccer practice during my youth. I smelled it in the za’atar, Aleppo pepper, allspice, and...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf there’s one thing I could tell lawmakers, it would be to bring back the expanded, monthly, fully refundable Child Tax Credit. Those monthly payments of up to $300 per child cut child poverty nearly in half in just a few months. And when the credit expired in late...
| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedIn 2004, I was a single mom raising three daughters on my own. I worked three jobs, including an overnight shift as a translator at our local hospital, to make ends meet. Every time I stood in line at the supermarket, I worried about what I would have to put back on...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIt might seem like there’s never been a better time to buy an electric vehicle. If you go by the headlines, you might be forgiven for thinking you can afford to upgrade your old gas-guzzling sedan with a sleek new zero-emissions EV. And if you can’t, government...
