Public Transit Moves Working Families. We Need to Support It.

| Mar 27, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedEveryone deserves access to reliable, safe, and affordable transportation — especially working families who need to make the most of their earnings. Working families rely on public transit, whether they live and work in big cities, small towns, or rural communities. I...

It’s Time to Turn Up the Heat on Monopoly Utilities

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured$2,200 for the year: That’s the utility bill that almost broke me. You’ve probably heard the statistic that most Americans can’t afford a $500 emergency. But hardly anyone talks about how electricity bills have become that emergency for families like mine — and all...

I Won’t Resign My Federal Job — And No One Else Should Either

| Mar 19, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP FeaturedDonald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling vital public services in the name of combating “inefficiency.” That’s meant abruptly — and often illegally — firing tens of thousands of workers like me. The word “inefficiency” conjures images of long lines at the DMV and...

Marijuana Legalization Advocates Are the Majority. It’s Time We Act Like It.

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySeventy percent of Americans, including majorities of both Democratic and Republican voters, say that marijuana should be legal. Yet far too often, lawmakers choose to either ignore this constituency or treat them with outright hostility. In Republican-led states like...

It’s Time to Go on Offense for Democracy

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyNo matter who we voted for, no one wants to see our grandparents forced onto the street, our schools without teachers, or our babies dying because there are no more hospitals. Yet all of these things will happen in the United States if deep cuts to essential programs...

Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does 

| Mar 12, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityThe paper sheet crinkled under me as I shifted on the vinyl examination table. The doctor paused. “Hmm,” she said quietly. This was January 2021. I’d patched together a few gigs since completing a masters degree program the previous year, but was still struggling to...