| Apr 22, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyI don’t know how you’re spending your quarantine, but I’ve spent the past few weeks wondering how to legally obtain marijuana. In states where it’s legal, people are stocking up on weed like it’s toilet paper. But I live in Wisconsin, where it most certainly isn’t. I...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyI was a child when I understood my immigrant family was wanted for labor — and for labor only. Every day before dawn, I would hear my father pray on his knees. He would pray for our health, our safety, and — most importantly — for nothing out of the ordinary to happen...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedThere’s an old saying in the black community I’ve heard my parents and grandparents repeat many times: “When white people catch a cold, black people catch pneumonia.” I can’t help but recall that old adage as demographic data comes out showing alarmingly...
| Apr 15, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe U.S. Postal Service plays a vital role in our nation’s health and stability at this time of crisis. Unfortunately, it’s financially strapped — and got just crumbs in the $2.2 trillion stimulus package recently passed by Congress. President Trump’s response? A...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|HP SubfeaturedThe best birthday present I got this year was a refill of my medication. Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be much to celebrate, but the coronavirus has upended the ordinary. I’ve been taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, since I was diagnosed with rheumatoid...
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