To Protect Women’s Health, Pass the Equal Rights Amendment

| Jan 26, 2022 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyLate January marked the 49th anniversary of Roe. V. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. It could very well be the last. In 1973, Roe codified the right to terminate a pregnancy up until viability — around 23-26 weeks. Anti-abortion...

Why Are We Torching Our Best Tool to End Child Poverty?

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAda Mae’s beautiful blonde curls are wild on this sunny, mild winter afternoon. I’ve just picked her up from the homeschool co-op that supplements the first-grade lessons we’ve been doing at home, and we’re hanging out at the park. This is my favorite time of the...

It’s Time for Biden to Keep His Promises On Marijuana

| Jan 12, 2022 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyPoliticians are no strangers to making campaign promises. Delivering on those promises? Well, that’s often another story. Such is the case thus far with President Biden’s campaign pledge to reform America’s archaic and unpopular marijuana prohibition laws. “No one...

Mental Health Care Is Hard to Come By — Especially If You’re Low-Income

| Dec 8, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedDuring the first wave of the pandemic in April 2020, my boyfriend asked, not unkindly, if I’ve ever been diagnosed with anything besides generalized anxiety disorder. I was relieved that somebody had finally asked about my mental health. All spring and summer 2020, I...

Blame Corporate Greed for Inflation

| Dec 1, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedWith vaccination rates on the rise, Americans are hoping for a return to some semblance of normalcy this holiday season. Unfortunately, as people start traveling more and buying holiday gifts, we’re facing supply chain disruptions and rising costs, from gas to...

Greed Is Prolonging the Pandemic

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedStop me if this sounds familiar. It’s been kind of a hard year, but I felt optimistic about the holidays. My wife and I had just scheduled our COVID-19 boosters. Even better, we’d been able to get our young child vaccinated. We imagined a cautious return to simple...