| Jul 14, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyFor the past few months, a debate has been unfolding over what it will take to address the country’s infrastructure needs. Earlier this year, President Biden released the American Jobs Plan, a blueprint for physical infrastructure like transportation, water,...
| | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyIn my research, I repeatedly hear the same refrain: “If people knew what I knew, they would believe what I believe.” Followed by: “We need more education.” Nearly all of the people — 99.5 percent — who are still dying from COVID-19 are unvaccinated. At this point,...
| Jun 23, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyI grew up on the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia. We lived in a sewage-ravaged, bug-infested trailer park. I didn’t realize we were poor at first — I thought that’s just how things were. But it was a difficult place to grow up, and as I got older,...
| Jun 16, 2021 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFifty years ago this month, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a “full scale attack” on drug use. It was the beginning of the War on Drugs. Nixon — and many presidents since — promised the War on Drugs would save lives. Trillions of dollars later,...
| Jun 9, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyA decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the Canadian company Enbridge, is in the midst of a controversial upgrade. That has sparked fierce resistance from Indigenous communities living along the route. Line 3 is being replaced to transport nearly 800,000 barrels...
