| May 31, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyYou could say the blues have followed me wherever I’ve gone. My mom came from a family of 18, picking cotton and peanuts in Georgia. My dad, who played the blues, couldn’t read. He learned numbers selling produce. I was born in Massachusetts, where my mom worked in...
| May 22, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyI’ll be turning 67 soon. I’d love to be able to retire on my birthday. I’d celebrate by spending the afternoon at the mall with my daughter and then start planning little trips to visit relatives. But even after 22 years of working for Walmart, our nation’s largest...
| Apr 26, 2023 | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMessages keep coming in to me from LGBTQ teachers who have been fired or threatened with firing. These teachers have years of experience and exemplary records. Many have advanced degrees. LGBTQ teachers are increasingly fearful. The Stonewall National Education...
| | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / SecurityA young girl is shot playing hide-and-seek when she strays into a man’s yard. A teenage boy rings the wrong doorbell and is shot in the face. A 20-year-old woman is fatally shot when she and her friends pull into the wrong driveway. Two cheerleaders are shot when one...
| Apr 12, 2023 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThere’s no question that parenting has gotten harder in this country. Gun violence is now the leading killer of children in this country, a brutal fact made clearer with each new school shooting. Child care is out of reach for many parents, while the rising cost of...
| Mar 15, 2023 | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, turned 20 this March. It was launched in 2003, right around the time I moved to the United States from the Philippines at age 6. I didn’t yet know the impact this gargantuan department would have on my life. I loved my life...