Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid

| Jul 17, 2024 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyConservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025, a “presidential transition project” of the Heritage Foundation, helpfully lays out how a group of former Trump officials...

The Paradox of Public Health Solutions That Worsen Climate Change

| Jul 3, 2024 | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIn Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” where the air is thick with pollutants and asthma rates are alarmingly high, a troublesome irony is unfolding.  This region is home to sprawling petrochemical plants and toxic fossil fuels that disproportionately affect the respiratory...

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

| Jun 27, 2024 | 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...

Addiction Recovery Is Hard. Funding It Shouldn’t Be.

| Jun 12, 2024 | Environment / Health|HP FeaturedTreating addiction is hard. But as someone who’s in recovery and now helps mothers on their own recovery journey, one thing is very simple: We need more investment in the solutions that work. Every person in recovery has their own story. My grandmother was an American...

It’s Time to Put Americans’ Health Decisions Back in Our Own Hands

| May 22, 2024 | Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyWe all deserve the right to make informed decisions about our own health. That right has been in danger for years — and since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it’s under siege. I grew up in the South with an abstinence-only education — if you can call that an...