| Jan 31, 2024 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyWhen my grandmother was raising my cousins and me, she taught us to work hard and go after what we wanted. I didn’t know it at the time, but we were in poverty. Scared of judgment and bureaucracy, my grandmother refused to apply for assistance programs. But that meant...
| Jan 17, 2024 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyToday I’m grieving the loss of my friend Norman Lear. Like millions of other TV viewers, I watched the Emmy Awards on January 15. The show honored Norman, who died late last year, as the Hollywood legend that he was. He was also the most deeply principled and decent...
| Jan 10, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThis January marks what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 95th birthday. Nearly a century after the late civil rights leader’s birth, it’s a good time to reflect on the work still to be done. Just over 60 years ago, in his famous “I Have A Dream” speech at...
| Dec 13, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAfter a year of economic hardship, climate disasters, and war, few could be blamed for feeling like our leaders have let us down. As we look ahead to a new year, I find it helpful to remember examples of those who not only saw the problem clearly, but brought people...
| Dec 6, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyToo many of us have to depend on sheer good luck to make it — especially when it comes to putting a roof over our heads. We grow up hearing that hard work alone will lift us above the hardships we’re born into. But many of us also watched as our parents worked two and...
| Nov 29, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe Pentagon just failed its audit — again. For the sixth time in a row, the agency that accounts for half the money Congress approves each year can’t figure out what it did with all that money. For a brief recap, the Pentagon has never passed an audit. Until 2018, it...
