| Sep 18, 2019 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyI’ll be honest: Writing a weekly opinion column about the environment during the Trump era is depressing — and boring. Every week is the same: “Trump did something harmful to the environment. That’s bad. He should stop. Here are the catastrophic things that will...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe Trump administration is sounding the alarm against vaping products as health officials scramble to determine why some consumers are suddenly becoming sick from them. But while the administration’s pending bans on flavored e-cigarettes will no doubt influence the...
| Sep 11, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedWhile the world watches in horror as fires rage in the Amazon, activists are naming culprits. “Put out the flames, we name your names — politicians, corporate vultures, you’re the ones we blame,” demonstrators chanted as they marched from the White House to the...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedA few years ago, I had a cupcake problem. I’d go to the cupcake store almost daily and I’d eat at least one cupcake, sometimes more. At the same time, I wanted to lose weight, or at least stop gaining it. So I kept looking up information about diets and superfoods,...
| Sep 4, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyFor generations, our country has been Mother Nature’s steward, setting aside and protecting important expanses of public lands for posterity. But what if these lands and natural resources suddenly got a “steward” who was a predator, rather than a protector? Meet...
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump discusses immigration as if the benefits of residence in the U.S. are a pie. When immigrants get more, the people who were already here get less. In general, that’s not true. When immigrants come here, they don’t just take some jobs (often low-wage jobs...
