| Mar 3, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyI’m one of America’s millions of essential workers. We’re working in your children’s schools, at your grocery stores, and at drive-through windows. We’re cleaning your homes. And we’re struggling so hard to make ends meet. Congress is debating whether to raise the...
| Feb 24, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyBill Gates has a new book about climate change. Now, I care deeply about climate change. So here’s a question: What does Gates, whose 66,000 square foot mansion features a 60-foot swimming pool, six kitchens, and a dining hall large enough for 200 people, have to...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedSmithfield is the country’s largest pork producer — and one of the biggest industrial polluters. But it doesn’t want you to think of it that way. Instead, the company likes to promote a conscientious, sustainable, family-farmer image, summed up with a simple...
| Feb 17, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / FarmingWe can’t just settle for disinfecting the White House after four-years of Trump. A fundamental, structural rebuild is necessary, including on health care, immigration, the environment, civil rights, labor law, and infrastructure. But here’s another huge area that must...
| Feb 10, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthWhat is it about billionaires and multimillionaires that make them so clueless about the impacts of their greed? Even when they occasionally make a stab at doing something right, they tend to get it all wrong. For example, while some major corporations rushed out PR...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthIn the United States, the popular tide has been ever so slowly turning against fossil fuels. But some still reject this change and the underlying science. Why? Some researchers argue it has to do with masculinity. A recent Huffington Post story raised the issue of...
