| Oct 13, 2021 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyHere are two terms you don’t expect to see together: “The state of Alabama” and “progressive leader.” (Okay, I’m a Texan, so I have no standing to point at the rank regressiveness of any other state government… but still, Alabama?) And yet the Camellia State has...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFor the last 20 years, I have lived and thrived in a mobile home community. I loved where I live — right up until Wall Street bought the park and threatened the well-being of myself, my neighbors, and my family. Mobile homes are a vital source of affordable housing...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda passes, many long-term nursing home patients could get an amazing opportunity: living at home. But as Democrats negotiate to bring down the plan’s price tag, many worry that investments in home care — and the workers who...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyTexas’s cruel new anti-abortion law is more than just an unconstitutional restriction on reproductive choice. It’s also an egregious new frontier in late capitalism. In addition to banning abortion beyond six weeks into pregnancy, the Texas law allows private citizens...
| | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIn a year that began with the promise of a new direction for our country, few things have been more disheartening than the eruption of voter suppression laws in Republican-led states. These laws gut the voting rights that Black and brown voters fought and died to...
