Americans Deserve Publicly Owned Generic Drugs

| Aug 25, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIt’s an all too familiar story. A company with some of the best-paying jobs around and a vital anchor for the community decides to engage in “restructuring” to “maximize long-term value creation.” In other words, it closes down and lays off its workers in pursuit of...

We Need a Civilian Climate Corps

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen you think of the New Deal, what comes to mind? For many Americans, the era has an enduring physical legacy in our parks, tree lines, and trails. On Orcas Island in Washington, hundreds of young men with the Civilian Conservation Corps built Moran State...

A Chance to Protect Our Essential Workers

| Aug 18, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyImmigration agents arrested over 600 undocumented workers at poultry plants across central Mississippi two years ago in what remains the largest workplace raid in U.S. history. This August, on the two-year anniversary of that raid, immigrant rights advocates demanded...

Human Rights Are Not ‘A Threat to Development’

| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOn the last night of a recent trip to Minneapolis, I walked along the Mississippi River waterfront. A young man, a worker with the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, asked if I had any questions. We spoke at length about the river and his job, which...

To Save the Planet, We Need to Demilitarize the Police

| Aug 4, 2021 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis summer, we’ve seen the Bootleg fire rage through Oregon. East Coasters have been breathing West Coast smoke. Massive floods have slammed towns from Germany to China. The town of Lytton, British Columbia burned to the ground. These disasters give a new sense of...

The Triumph and Tragedy of the Olympic Refugee Team

| | Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe Olympic Refugee Team filing into the stadium during Tokyo’s opening ceremonies provided a powerful, moving sight: almost 30 athletes, carrying the Olympic flag, striding alongside the delegations of almost every country in the world. Instead of their home...