| Feb 10, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthIn the United States, the popular tide has been ever so slowly turning against fossil fuels. But some still reject this change and the underlying science. Why? Some researchers argue it has to do with masculinity. A recent Huffington Post story raised the issue of...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIf it’s passed by Congress, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief proposal would do a lot more than fund relief payments and vaccine rollouts. It would also raise the wage floor for all U.S. workers — and give a particularly long overdue raise to restaurant servers,...
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| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThe Democratic Party establishment is now issuing a go-slow warning to the new president they backed. They instruct that, while Biden should undo the most repressive and regressive edicts of Trump, he should not attempt the kind of big-idea, Rooseveltian structural...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyUnity and bipartisanship sound wonderful. But can anyone explain how “building bridges” to today’s GOP will get anything done? Republicans now demand “unity” even as many embrace the big lie that President Biden stole the election from Trump — and even after some...
| Jan 27, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedEvery week, millions of us walk into a Walgreens drugstore without giving it a second thought. Maybe we should. Walgreens perfectly encapsulates the long-term economic trends of the Trump years: top corporate executives pocketing immense paychecks at the expense of...
