| Feb 17, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedHistory doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes, as the old saw goes, it rhymes. Take this year’s Forbes 400. If you listen close enough, you can hear echoes of the first Forbes list back in 1982 — you just have to turn it up about 100 notches. Back in 1982, with...
| Feb 10, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthWhat is it about billionaires and multimillionaires that make them so clueless about the impacts of their greed? Even when they occasionally make a stab at doing something right, they tend to get it all wrong. For example, while some major corporations rushed out PR...
| | 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...
