| Sep 2, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedAs I watched Hurricane Laura churn towards the Gulf Coast, I felt a familiar knot in my stomach. As a longtime first responder to natural disasters, I felt the same way before Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle in 2018, and...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFirst, the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court in their playoff game against the Orlando Magic. Then other teams followed suit, leading to a three-day wildcat strike in the National Basketball Association. The Bucks were protesting the police shooting of Jacob...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedEven before the COVID-19 pandemic, many people — including my parents — said they’d rather die than end up in a nursing home. So when my mother suffered a brain aneurysm and became severely disabled at the age of 57, my father and I cared for her at home. I had two...
| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAfter Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, his autopsy report revealed that at the young age of 39, he had “the heart of a 60-year old.” Doctors concluded that King’s heart had aged due to the stress and pressure endured throughout his 13-year civil...
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