| Mar 1, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedI’m a proud Air Force veteran. But in the service, I had little to no say over the decisions made for myself or my team. I knew that when I left the military, my next job would be a union job. Now I’ve worked as a union broadband technician for seven years. I get a...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyA lot has changed since 2011, the year I graduated high school. Tiktok was invented, there are now 12 Kardashian grandchildren, and I’m about to turn 30. But some things never change. Back then, at the height of the Tea Party era, conservative Republicans threatened...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured“The Wreck of the Old 97” is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the company’s demand that the engineer speed down a dangerous track to deliver cargo on time. Fully 120 years later we have the “Wreck of the Norfolk...
| Feb 22, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI’m one of the 84 million Americans who get our health care through Medicaid. And I’m one of the 18 million who might lose it starting this spring unless our policymakers take action. I went to college, got a degree, and planned on being self-sufficient. But in my...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedThe toxic clouds that billowed up from a derailed freight train in Ohio this February are a chilling metaphor for the toxic greed that has infected so many of our big corporations. After having to evacuate, residents of East Palestine, Ohio are cautiously going back...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyYour doctor is out and unable to see you now. Not out for lunch or out on vacation — but out of medical practice. America’s perverse health care system, which sublimates care to the profiteering demands of Wall Street speculators who essentially own today’s system,...