| Mar 4, 2026 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedLast year, John Deere announced plans to go 100 percent robotic by 2030. That’s right: in just four more years, the world’s largest tractor manufacturer plans to replace every corn and soybean farmer with robots. Farmers won’t own the machines, of course. Right now...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWarehouses are for storing goods. ICE wants to use them to store people. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramps up arrests, the Trump administration is seeking to spend $38 billion to expand its detention capacity to 92,600 people, according to agency...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|HP SubfeaturedWorking people — and the state and local governments who represent them — are being pushed to the brink by deep federal cuts to essential programs like Medicaid and SNAP. Those cuts didn’t happen in a vacuum. They were deliberately paired with a trillion-dollar tax...
| Feb 25, 2026 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBy most measures, cannabis legalization is a resounding success for the 24 states (plus D.C.) that have implemented it. That’s why no state has ever repealed its legalization laws, and public support for the policy remains near all-time highs. Nonetheless, the policy...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThis February, a panel of conservative federal judges ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can move forward with terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras, and Nepal. For the over 60,000 immigrants impacted by...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedGeorge Orwell spoke bluntly about the nefarious nature of advertising, calling it “the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.” Even Orwell, though, would’ve been astonished by the cacophony of swill bucket advertising currently being blasted at us by Amazon,...
