| Sep 3, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP FeaturedAI is everywhere. But its powerful computing comes with a big cost to our planet, our neighborhoods, and our wallets. AI servers are so power hungry that utilities are keeping coal-fired power plants that were slated for closure running to meet the needs of massive...
| Aug 27, 2025 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a recruitment message on social media this summer saying, “America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need YOU to get them out.” Setting aside the racist overtones of this messaging, even DHS itself says...
| Aug 21, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedThe gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666 to 1 last year. In other words, to make as much money as their CEO made in 2024, typical baristas would’ve had to start brewing macchiatos around the time humans first invented the wheel....
| | HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard under the guise of restoring security in the nation’s capital — despite D.C.’s crime rate being at a 30-year low. What began as a deployment of 800 D.C. National Guard troops has grown to encompass 2,091 as of this...
| Aug 13, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe new tax law President Trump and congressional Republicans passed this summer drastically reduces taxes on the wealthiest, slashes essential spending, and adds over $4 trillion to the deficit over a decade. The law weakens health care and food assistance more than...
| Jul 30, 2025 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOnly a few years after the pandemic, young kids in this country are seeing a whole new disruption to their learning: immigration raids. One of the Trump administration’s first actions after assuming office was to rescind the Biden administration’s guidelines for...
