| Aug 27, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWe Americans tend not to pay much attention to our northern neighbors. Often, entire election cycles can come and go without anyone running for national office saying anything about Canada. But that’s changing. Canada now looms much larger in our politics, mainly...
| Aug 26, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis August, a phony controversy erupted over wealthy donors to President Trump’s campaign and political action committee being publicly named. After Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) tweeted the names of San Antonio contributors who’d made large donations to support Trump,...
| Aug 21, 2019 | Economy / Business|Food / FarmingDonald Trump loves farmers. We know this because he says so. “Farmers, I LOVE YOU!” he declared in December. But he’s been “loving” them to death, with policies that are causing farm prices to tumble, miring our ag economy in the ditch and creating a rising tsunami...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBurning fossil fuels boils our planet — that much is generally well known. But often these fuels do serious damage before they ever get to market. They spill out of pipelines, poison groundwater, or explode on trains. Even when they don’t, building new pipelines and...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyFour hundred years ago this month, the first enslaved people from Africa arrived in Virginia. Slavery is often reduced to a crime of America’s long-ago past. But enslaved labor created the backbone for America’s capitalistic economy, allowing it to grow into — and...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyYou would think after a white nationalist murdered 22 people and injured dozens more in El Paso, Donald Trump would lay off the hate, even just for a moment. Apparently he’s not capable. Or not willing. Whether it’s immigration raids, cutbacks on legal immigration,...
