| Mar 17, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWestern medicine is predicated on the “germ theory of disease.” That’s what it sounds like: the theory that germs like bacteria and viruses cause disease. If you want to prevent disease, our standard theory goes, you prevent exposure to germs, or you...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWe all have to come together. We need to help each other. We don’t have time for politics as usual. In times of crisis like the current coronavirus pandemic, these sorts of calls for cooperation become the drumbeat of our daily lives. Unfortunately, no drumbeat ever...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs Americans do everything they can to stay safe and limit their exposure to COVID-19, we are seeing more clearly the great divides in our society. While the virus doesn’t discriminate, we are seeing that its impacts certainly do. In a pandemic, there’s a huge...
| Mar 11, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityWhen dealing in matters of war and peace, shouldn’t a president sort of know what he or she is doing? But that’s not Donald Trump’s way. On February 29, he grandly announced that he had cut a peace deal to end America’s deadly, costly war against Afghanistan’s...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBirmingham, Alabama is a landmark city for the American civil rights movement. Even today, it’s ground zero for a vital fight over voting rights. I visited Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham recently to deliver inmates a simple message: you are free to vote, even if...
| Mar 4, 2020 | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedA year after Trump took office, Saturday Night Live did a sketch called “What Even Matters Anymore?” Game show host Jessica Chastain read a list of outrageous things Trump has done and asked, “Does it even matter anymore?” Each time, the...
