| 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...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAn older generation remembers President Richard Nixon desperately insisting, during the Watergate scandal, “I am not a crook.” Along the same lines, right-wing Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett implores, “this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan...
| | Cartoon|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyGet the full-res version here.
| Jun 28, 2023 | RoundupThis Fourth of July season, we’re thinking about freedom. Our country hasn’t always lived up to its ideals. But our country was founded on dissent, and throughout our history dissenting movements have been key to advancing the freedoms we proclaim but so...
| | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen you think of Americans whose music has made a lasting difference, you might think of Scott Joplin, Woody Guthrie, Maybelle Carter, Harry Belafonte … or Roger Payne. Who? I came across Payne in a June obituary reporting that he’d died at age 88. Yes, I...
