| Feb 24, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyBill Gates has a new book about climate change. Now, I care deeply about climate change. So here’s a question: What does Gates, whose 66,000 square foot mansion features a 60-foot swimming pool, six kitchens, and a dining hall large enough for 200 people, have to...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyActor and activist Danny Glover traveled recently to the most-watched Amazon facility in the country — the Bessemer fulfillment center outside Birmingham, Alabama. The warehouse’s more than 5,800 predominantly Black workers are in the middle of a historic vote on...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedSmithfield is the country’s largest pork producer — and one of the biggest industrial polluters. But it doesn’t want you to think of it that way. Instead, the company likes to promote a conscientious, sustainable, family-farmer image, summed up with a simple...
| Feb 17, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / FarmingWe can’t just settle for disinfecting the White House after four-years of Trump. A fundamental, structural rebuild is necessary, including on health care, immigration, the environment, civil rights, labor law, and infrastructure. But here’s another huge area that must...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFormer president Donald Trump narrowly avoided conviction on his second impeachment trial. After delaying the vote till he was out of office, most Republican senators simply said they couldn’t impeach a “private citizen” — even if he was guilty. Still, the trial was...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyConspiracy theories like QAnon are outlandish, dangerous, and often absurd. So why do people believe them? Some say it’s a lack of education. “They can do QAnon, or they can do college-educated voters,” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) said about Republicans. “They...
