| Dec 4, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyLike nearly all Americans of a certain age, I was told in school that tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana are gateway drugs — and that is why marijuana should remain illegal. First of all, even if you accept that these three substances are “gateways” to something worse,...
| Nov 27, 2019 | RoundupSince a lot of folks are out for the week of Thanksgiving, we thought we’d do something a little different this week and revisit some evergreen favorites from earlier in the year. This bundle includes Chuck Collins’ clever take on the GOP’s long...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThomas Jefferson may have written that all men were created equal in the Declaration of Independence. But he, along with so many of his fellow plantation owners, was still complicit in the institution of slavery. Jefferson’s famous Monticello plantation, a picturesque...
| Nov 26, 2019 | Economy / BusinessBreaking news: Donald Trump inadvertently said something true! He recently exulted that his special tax incentives to spur investment in poverty projects have gone “beyond anything that anybody… even thought.” So true! His “Opportunity Zone” tax breaks are financing...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyGracie Mansion, the official residence of New York’s mayors since 1942, hosted billionaire Michael Bloomberg for three terms. The first of these terms began after Bloomberg, then the Republican candidate for mayor, spent an incredible $74 million to get himself...
