We Need a Smaller Pentagon

| Dec 7, 2022 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityCan you imagine the audacity to fail a multi-trillion dollar audit of public funds, and then ask for even more of those taxpayer dollars? Pentagon leaders just did exactly that. This month news broke that the agency once again failed to pass a basic audit showing that...

Elon Musk May Not Be So Brilliant After All

| Nov 23, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedA good day’s work for a good day’s pay. Should this age-old wisdom apply to overpaid CEOs as well as their workers? A Delaware court will soon decide, a turn of events that must have the richest man in the known universe, Elon Musk, feeling more than a little bit...

How Low-Income Voters Shaped The Midterm Elections

| Nov 16, 2022 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe midterm elections confirmed that in many ways, we are a nation divided. But maybe not as divided as we seem. Voters may be split on their partisan preferences. But in ballot initiatives, voters across the political spectrum ushered in a wave of significant...

This Year, Voters Made an End Run Around Out of Touch Politicians

| Nov 10, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis fall, in the lead-up to the midterm elections, a group of Catholic nuns, Protestant ministers, and other faith leaders caravanned around South Dakota on what they called a “Love Your Neighbor Tour.” They stopped in grocery stores, diners, senior centers,...

Democracy Is on the Ballot

| Nov 2, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIt’s said a frog will sit calmly in warming water until it boils. Will we do the same? Extremists and white nationalists have been turning up the heat on our fragile democracy for years — from their deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville to the storming of...

GOP Ads Cry “Crime!” But Homicides Are Actually Falling

| Oct 26, 2022 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIf you’re trying to process all those political ads you’re seeing about crime, you’d better look at the facts. First of all, why are we hearing about this now? Republican-appointed justices just canceled the right to abortion. Most Republicans oppose acting to protect...