| Apr 22, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyI don’t know how you’re spending your quarantine, but I’ve spent the past few weeks wondering how to legally obtain marijuana. In states where it’s legal, people are stocking up on weed like it’s toilet paper. But I live in Wisconsin, where it most certainly isn’t. I...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedThere’s an old saying in the black community I’ve heard my parents and grandparents repeat many times: “When white people catch a cold, black people catch pneumonia.” I can’t help but recall that old adage as demographic data comes out showing alarmingly...
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| Apr 15, 2020 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFirst, it was a public health crisis. Now, it’s decimating the economy. And for it’s next trick, the coronavirus is threatening to undermine the 2020 election. Unless, that is, Congress steps in to ensure we can vote by mail. If you’re curious what the worst case...
| | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyAmazingly, America has become a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: “Where’s the government?” These are not born-again Bernie Sanders activists, but people of all political stripes (including previously apolitical multitudes) who are now clamoring for big...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|HP SubfeaturedThe best birthday present I got this year was a refill of my medication. Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be much to celebrate, but the coronavirus has upended the ordinary. I’ve been taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, since I was diagnosed with rheumatoid...
