Corporate America’s New Euphemisms for Gouging

| Jun 27, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedWe should pay attention to corporate America’s fluctuating wordplay, for their frequent contortions of language disguise ploys to dupe, confuse, and rip off us hoi polloi — i.e., their customers. For example, here’s a mouthful that’s been gaining popularity among...

Our Nearly $1 Trillion Military Budget Won’t Make Us Safer

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIf you looked at the U.S. military budget without knowing otherwise, you’d probably guess we were in World War III. Our military spending is now the highest it’s been at any point since World War II — and Congress keeps adding more. The House of Representatives just...

Two Years Since Dobbs, Americans Are Fighting to Reclaim Their Rights

| Jun 25, 2024 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIn its Dobbs ruling two years ago this June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, abortion restrictions have had devastating effects not only on pregnant people but on our society more generally. Abortion restrictions force poor women to travel out of...

Crypto Scams Are Rampant. The Industry Needs Regulation.

| Jun 12, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA recent bill passed by the House of Representatives claims to regulate the cryptocurrency industry and protect consumers. But the bill is a Trojan horse designed by an industry flush with cash — the real kind.  The Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st...

The Boldest Step To Close the Racial Wealth Divide in Generations

| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis op-ed was originally published on June 14, 2023. We’ve updated it slightly for Juneteenth 2024. Juneteenth celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. But over 150 years later, discriminatory public policies have prevented African Americans...

Affordable Child Care Helped My Family Out of Deep Poverty. Can We Save It?

| May 29, 2024 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOn a good day in December 1983, I cooked Vienna sausages and grits on a borrowed kerosene heater that — in my poverty-stricken state — felt like another mouth to feed. Every day I had to buy fuel for it. I’d vowed to lift myself and two boys out of destitution as soon...