| Feb 22, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMy favorite chair is surrounded by piles of art supplies. There’s yarn stacked high in baskets. Metal boxes of paint and brushes are squashed next to jewelry supplies teetering off the edge of a too-full shelf. I want so badly to want to clean. But then I invariably...
| | RoundupWho could’ve seen the Ohio rail disaster coming? Railroad workers, it turns out. This week in OtherWords, my colleague Rebekah Entralgo shows how the corporate profiteering of rail carriers led to unsafe staffing and maintenance practices — and ultimately disaster in...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedThe toxic clouds that billowed up from a derailed freight train in Ohio this February are a chilling metaphor for the toxic greed that has infected so many of our big corporations. After having to evacuate, residents of East Palestine, Ohio are cautiously going back...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyYour doctor is out and unable to see you now. Not out for lunch or out on vacation — but out of medical practice. America’s perverse health care system, which sublimates care to the profiteering demands of Wall Street speculators who essentially own today’s system,...
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