| Dec 9, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyWhen it comes to marijuana policy, it’s time for the federal government to get out of the way. Fifteen states, home to 25 percent of the U.S. population, have legalized the possession and use of marijuana by anyone over the age of 21. Most states now allow some form...
| Dec 2, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyDuring the pandemic, essential workers have become public heroes. These frontline workers include tens of millions of retail employees, from those who stock our grocery shelves to those filling orders for Amazon. With so many people seeing firsthand how low-wage...
| Nov 18, 2020 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAmerica owes its Black citizens so much. During a pandemic that has killed Black people at disproportionate rates, we still managed to save our democracy by getting out the vote in what may have been the most contentious presidential election in modern history....
| Nov 12, 2020 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyJoe Biden is headed to the White House, and he has low-income voters to thank. While higher-income voters swung further towards Donald Trump compared to four years ago, increased support from poor and low-income voters helped push the former vice president over the...
| Oct 28, 2020 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyVoter mobilization is not easy in Metcalfe Park, a majority-Black neighborhood in Milwaukee scarred by poverty, racism, disenfranchisement, and neglect. “I don’t believe in voting,” one young Black woman told Melody McCurtis, who’s been going door-to-door to get out...
| Oct 22, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|HP SubfeaturedWhen I attended President Trump’s October 13 rally in Des Moines, I was disgusted by the lies I heard. Trump likes to brag about how many jobs he’s created. He likes to claim that he’s fulfilled his promise to be the “the greatest jobs president that God had ever...
