| May 27, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed fundamental inequalities in this country. With millions of us hurting — especially the poor and people of color — there’s been widespread public support for bold government action to address long-standing social problems....
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| May 20, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBillionaire Elon Musk recently defied local public health officials and reopened his flagship Tesla auto assembly plant in Fremont, California. Public safety officials had ordered that plant shut down — over Musk’s fierce opposition — almost two months earlier. “This...
| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFor many Americans, vote-by-mail will be a matter of life and death come November. In a pandemic, it is immoral to force voters to choose between their health and their freedom to vote. And it is immoral to knowingly trigger a major outbreak of the coronavirus when...
| | Environment / HealthStrangely enough, navigating the world with mental illness has oddly prepared me for quarantine. I’ve got social anxiety. I crave human connection, and I also fear it, so I spent years avoiding people while desperately lonely. You know what it looked like? A lot like...
| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’ve ever had a parent or loved one incarcerated, you know how scary it can be. There’s so much that can go wrong in prison, and neither you nor your loved one have much control over it. Thanks to mass incarceration, millions live with this fear every day — 64...
