| Dec 26, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedLately there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future of humanity. In October, the United Nations issued a major report warning of a climate crisis as soon as 2040. The day after Thanksgiving, the Trump administration tried to bury the...
| Dec 19, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyIf you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckle-headism has swept our country, turning previously progressive white working-class people into mindless Trump worshipers, then I want to tell you about a new report. It’s from People’s Action,...
| Dec 12, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyA new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists accuses Trump’s Interior Department of “relentless attacks on science ranging from suppressing and sidelining the work of the department’s scientists to systematically refusing to act on climate change.” To put it...
| Dec 5, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedCancer kills. Every American knows that. What every American doesn’t know: Cancer is also helping some Americans become exceedingly rich. And these Americans will do most anything to keep their windfalls coming, even prey on the fragile psyches of the families cancer...
| Nov 30, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDepending upon your state of residency, you might have a harder time getting and keeping Medicaid. By sheer luck of geography, folks in some states have more of a safety net than their neighbors in other states. Medicaid was created in 1965 by Lyndon Johnson and was...
| Nov 29, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / SecurityMarijuana legalization was among the big winners in this year’s elections. In Michigan, voters approved Proposal 1, legalizing the adult use, cultivation, and retail marketing of marijuana. Michigan is the first Midwestern state to legalize adult marijuana use and...