| Oct 31, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyMidterm elections are approaching. The first major election since Trump took office, our current political landscape could shift dramatically depending on the results. If Democrats can take back control of the House of Representatives — or even the Senate — that could...
| Oct 30, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump recently sent a threatening tweet in response to an estimated 7,000 migrants traveling together to the U.S.-Mexico border. If Mexico refuses to halt the caravan of men, women, and children seeking refuge, Trump warned, he’ll “call up the...
| | Economy / Business|Peace / SecurityThe other day, over 20 people died in an airstrike in Yemen’s coastal city of Hodeidah. The bombs, dropped by a Saudi-led coalition, hit a farmers market, where men from neighboring villages sold their goods, hoping to at least break even and bring some food home to...
| Oct 24, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyOver 60 percent of Americans — including majorities of Republicans, independents, and Democrats — believe that the adult use of marijuana ought to be legal. And an estimated 20 percent of Americans now live in a state where cannabis use by those over the age of 21 is...
| Oct 22, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedNot too many romantic comedies have a major character who goes bankrupt paying the health care costs of a loved one with dementia. Although millions of American families can relate to this financial strain, it’s not typical rom-com material. But that’s what happens to...
| Oct 10, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors PicksThe federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in nearly 10 years. Yet with a stroke of his pen, Jeff Bezos of Amazon raised the wages of hundreds of thousands of the company’s lowest paid workers. In an age of extreme income inequality, this is leap in the right...
