| Jul 12, 2023 | 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...
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| 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...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyRecent weeks saw two terrible tragedies at sea. In one, five explorers died when the Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic. In the other, over 600 refugees — most of them women and children — drowned in the Mediterranean when their fishing trawler sank....