| Sep 8, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyTwenty years have now passed since 9/11. The 20 years since those terrible attacks have been marked by endless wars, harsh immigration crackdowns, and expanded federal law enforcement powers that have cost us our privacy and targeted entire communities based on...
| Sep 1, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedThe collective wealth of the seven wealthiest Americans has now reached nearly $1 trillion. And these seven pay virtually nothing in income tax. According to Forbes, the collective wealth of these seven men — Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry...
| | Economy / BusinessCorporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact that while the U.S. economy has been coming back, you haven’t! “Labor shortage,” they squeal, lazily accusing the workforce of mass...
| Aug 25, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIt’s an all too familiar story. A company with some of the best-paying jobs around and a vital anchor for the community decides to engage in “restructuring” to “maximize long-term value creation.” In other words, it closes down and lays off its workers in pursuit of...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyAmerica’s economic and political inequality has led workaday Americans to exclaim: “The system is broken. Let’s fix it!” But there’s another version of this protest that I’m hearing more frequently these days: “The system is fixed. Let’s break it!” That certainly...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn the 21st century, many of us are used to the murderous mass violence of modern warfare. After all, we grew up living it or hearing about it. The 20th century rates as the deadliest in human history — 75 million people died in World War II alone. Millions have died...
