| Dec 2, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA few years ago, massive protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock changed the popular narrative about what climate activism looked like. The protests made clear that ramming dangerous pipelines through vulnerable communities wasn’t going to be easy...
| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyYears ago, Robert Kennedy noted that progress is hard. “Progress is nice,” he said, “but its agent is change, and change has its enemies.” Kennedy’s recognition that gutsy, honest leadership is necessary to confront wealthy interests and advance the common good...
| Nov 18, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedThis week my students turned in papers relating news articles to what they learned in class about parenting. Every single student’s paper is about how the pandemic is exacerbating pre-existing inequalities. I’m a teaching assistant in a family sociology course, and...
| | Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyLet’s talk about turkey! No, not the Butterball now pouting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing — the big bird, 46 million of which Americans will devour on Thanksgiving. It was the Aztecs who first domesticated the gallopavo, but leave it...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedLike everyone else with a pre-existing medical condition, I’ve been holding my breath, anxious about the latest attempt to undo the life-saving provisions of the Affordable Care Act. This time, it’s yet another Republican lawsuit that’s gone all the way to the U.S....
| Nov 12, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump’s refusal to accept the judgment of the American people might just seem like denial. But in denying the legitimacy of over 77 million votes against him, Trump and leading Republican politicians are implementing a design more sinister than poor...
