| May 15, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedYears ago, tobacco companies discovered the link between their products and lung cancer. Did they warn their customers? No — they denied the link entirely, misleading the public for decades while killing their customers. Similarly, ExxonMobil scientists made...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP FeaturedI don’t get that much hate mail — except when I write about race. This spring I coauthored a report called “Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide.” My coauthors and I found that the median white family today owns 41 times more wealth than the median black...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe Democratic primaries are heating up. One notable feature of the race is the strong presence of progressive candidates — which has many in the establishment wing of the party worried. Former president Barack Obama, whose moderate vice president Joe Biden is now in...
| May 8, 2019 | Economy / BusinessCorporate bosses don’t talk about it in public, but among themselves — psssst — they whisper excitedly about implementing a transformative “AI agenda” across our economy. AI stands for artificial intelligence, the rapidly advancing digital technology of creating...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA bill in Texas would allow professionals of all kinds — doctors, pharmacists, electricians — to deny services to LGBTQ customers on religious grounds. This comes alongside the Trump administration’s rollout of a rule that would allow health care providers to actually...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedAcross the country, you’ll find millions of working families whose wages haven’t budged in a generation, even as the cost of living has skyrocketed. Many of these same communities are now getting hit hardest by floods, droughts, storms, and other climate disasters....
