| Feb 24, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedSmithfield is the country’s largest pork producer — and one of the biggest industrial polluters. But it doesn’t want you to think of it that way. Instead, the company likes to promote a conscientious, sustainable, family-farmer image, summed up with a simple...
| Feb 17, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFormer president Donald Trump narrowly avoided conviction on his second impeachment trial. After delaying the vote till he was out of office, most Republican senators simply said they couldn’t impeach a “private citizen” — even if he was guilty. Still, the trial was...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyConspiracy theories like QAnon are outlandish, dangerous, and often absurd. So why do people believe them? Some say it’s a lack of education. “They can do QAnon, or they can do college-educated voters,” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) said about Republicans. “They...
| | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedHistory doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes, as the old saw goes, it rhymes. Take this year’s Forbes 400. If you listen close enough, you can hear echoes of the first Forbes list back in 1982 — you just have to turn it up about 100 notches. Back in 1982, with...
| Feb 10, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMy father’s tired eyes lit up in a way that I had not seen since my sister was born. “Esto nos podría cambiar la vida,” he said. “This could change our lives.” This was his hopeful reaction to the Biden-Harris administration’s proposal of legislation that would create...
| Feb 3, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe stock of private prison giants like GEO Group and CoreCivic plummeted recently after President Joe Biden signed an executive order phasing out the use of federal private prisons. The move was celebrated by criminal justice advocates as a small but necessary step...
