Safe Tap Water Should Be a Human Right

| Oct 5, 2022 | Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe water drips lethargically from the tap, if at all. Its appearance shifts from chemical brown sludge to ghoulish clouds. The accompanying stench is revolting. Unsafe tap water is unacceptable in any modern society. But from Michigan to Mississippi to Tribal...

Can’t Beat the Heat? Blame Inequality

| Sep 14, 2022 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe heat. It’s never been hotter in our lifetimes. This past spring the mercury hit nearly 124 degrees Fahrenheit in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad — “just below the conventional estimate for the threshold of human survival,” notes science writer David Wallace-Wells....

Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI have terrible chronic pain that’s left me unable to work for the last few years. I can’t sleep well, and every day is a battle just to take care of myself. It would be life-changing if I could be seen by a doctor. But I’m one of the 2 million Americans caught in...

Devolution

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Nuclear Power: A Panacea?

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Pass the MAT Act to Defeat Overdoses

| Aug 31, 2022 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI come from a football family. Across the South and much of the country, including in the Wiregrass region of Alabama where I live, it’s almost a religion. Working-class kids here dream of growing up to play football in college and the NFL. Our family gathered around...