| Mar 12, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityThe paper sheet crinkled under me as I shifted on the vinyl examination table. The doctor paused. “Hmm,” she said quietly. This was January 2021. I’d patched together a few gigs since completing a masters degree program the previous year, but was still struggling to...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyElon Musk and Donald Trump have been axing the federal workforce based on the claim that the government is “bloated.” Now Trump’s blaming federal workers for a recession his own policies may be creating. As a candidate, Trump repeatedly promised to reverse inflation....
| Mar 5, 2025 | RoundupIn the first State of the Union-style address of his second term, Donald Trump spent several minutes advancing falsehoods about Social Security — an ominous sign of things to come, says Social Security Works president Nancy J. Altman. “The last few weeks...
| | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedCEO pay has been skyrocketing for years now, fueled in part by tax cuts for corporations and ultra wealthy individuals. That’s not just unfair to ordinary workers or taxpayers — it’s dangerous for our entire economy. I’ve seen firsthand how these CEO pay practices...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyImagine a high-stakes football game where one team is notorious for playing dirty, skirting the rules, and making the game about brute force, not fair play. Thank goodness for the referee, right? Well, now imagine that right in the middle of the game, the ref gets...
