| Oct 21, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWant to know where the 2020 presidential election is heading? Don’t obsess about the polls. Pay attention to tax lawyers and accountants. These experts in reducing rich people’s tax bills understand what many Americans still haven’t quite fathomed: The nation’s...
| | Environment / Health|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI’m of the generation that was born during World War II. We’re now in our mid-to-late 70s. We were a little pre-boomer, but many of us joined or led the rights revolutions of the 1960s, struggled against the Vietnam War, and hoped to make the world more just,...
| Oct 14, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedFor family farmers like Hans Breitenmoser, the odds of catching COVID-19 on the job are slim. Social distancing is not exactly a challenge when you’re farming more than 1,300 acres in rural Wisconsin. But Breitenmoser is one of many Wisconsin farmers who are showing...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAlthough the United States hails itself as a bastion of representative democracy, voting regulations suppress the vote even in a normal year — and even more so during the pandemic. Texas, for example, only allows absentee voting if voters are 65 or older, disabled, or...
| Oct 7, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWell before Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to the United States Supreme Court, every step in the frenzied process had seemed terribly amiss. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his party are playing by two sets of rules, ramming through Donald Trump’s...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe warmest and fuzziest phrase in the political folklore of American capitalism? “Family-owned business”! These few words evoke everything people like and admire about the U.S. economy. The always welcoming luncheonette. The barbershop where you can still get a...
