| Jul 22, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedFor months now, uprisings against structural racism have spurred discussions about how to bridge the nation’s racial divides — including the enormous racial wealth gap. Many are calling on their governments to pull funds out of police budgets and redirect that money...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAlmost nobody expects jail time for failure to pay a parking ticket or highway toll, right? But in most U.S. cities, public transit riders can be charged with a misdemeanor for failure to pay the full fare. The punishment for “fare evasion” is on par with that of...
| Jul 14, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAfter graduating from college last year, Hayat Rahmeto moved back in with her parents and planned to work two jobs to save money for law school. Then the pandemic hit. She lost one job, with Delta Airlines, and the prospects for finding another were bleak....
| Jul 1, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe global economy is collapsing. When the pandemic began, experts at the International Monetary Fund predicted that we would see the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. This week, they announced that it will be even worse than they thought. This...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor decades, we’ve been told that policing is a public good: available to all, for the benefit of all. But in practice, that’s never been true. One of the basic measures of a “public good” is that it’s accessible to all people in a society, regardless of ability to...
| Jun 24, 2020 | HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWhen I was a child, I learned to believe that Americans valued freedom and equality more than any other place on the planet. I learned that, in our criminal justice system, we were innocent until proven guilty. It’s hard to still believe that now. Call me a cynic, but...
