| Jul 12, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyWho will benefit from the Supreme Court’s recent ruling striking down race as a factor in college admissions? Mostly, just wealthy white people. That’s because the ruling refused to touch so-called “legacy admissions.” Colleges are free to continue giving preferential...
| Jun 28, 2023 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIn May of 1933 in Berlin, Nazis gathered in the streets, built a gigantic bonfire, and burned thousands of books. The books had been seized from the city’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. The nonprofit institute was the first in the world to focus on the science of...
| Jun 7, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIn the Disney movie Frozen, the snowman Olaf famously said: “Some people are worth melting for.” But as Disney itself has discovered, extremist legislators are definitely not. All of corporate America needs to learn that lesson. Like many companies, Disney made...
| May 31, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyYou could say the blues have followed me wherever I’ve gone. My mom came from a family of 18, picking cotton and peanuts in Georgia. My dad, who played the blues, couldn’t read. He learned numbers selling produce. I was born in Massachusetts, where my mom worked in...
| May 22, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyI’ll be turning 67 soon. I’d love to be able to retire on my birthday. I’d celebrate by spending the afternoon at the mall with my daughter and then start planning little trips to visit relatives. But even after 22 years of working for Walmart, our nation’s largest...
| May 17, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyEvery television series or film begins and ends with writers. They pen the iconic lines that actors deliver, like “Just one more thing,” “There’s no crying in baseball!,” and “Rosebud.” Good stories, like good lines, can last for generations. But for the writers who...
