| Jul 8, 2026 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyTemperatures have soared globally this summer. And far from simply being uncomfortable, it’s killing people. This past July 4th was one of the hottest in U.S. history. While Americans gathered to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday, dozens died from extreme heat —...
| | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedI was 13 years old. We’d just returned from Christmas vacation, and I was asleep in my room. My mother tells me she heard a noise and found me in my bed, twisted up like a clam, frothing at the mouth. She was in shock. The paramedics came and took me to the ER. I...
| Jul 1, 2026 | RoundupThe sad display playing out at the empty “American State Fair” befits a national mood that isn’t all that celebratory about this country’s 250th birthday. But partisan theatrics aside, it’s a genuinely historic anniversary and opportunity...
| | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThis Fourth of July marks the 250th birthday of a new kind of nation state — based not on ancestral ties to a land or on the territorial reach of monarchs, but on shared principles about the rights of citizens and the purpose of the state. The Founding Fathers set...
| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBack when I was growing up, it seemed a bit easier to get by on next to nothing. People could afford food and shelter on a working-class wage and get a little help from safety net programs when needed. But since the 1990s, the cost of housing and healthcare has...
