| Feb 11, 2020 | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyI recently spent three weeks at the border between El Paso, Texas and Juárez, Mexico. The experience strengthened my resolve, as a person of faith and Sister of Mercy, to share more about how the situation there concerns all of us in the United States. In the shelters...
| | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedI have spent the past seven years studying the rich biological communities of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Few places there are more captivating than the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The monument is home to breathtaking cacti that have stood for over a century,...
| Feb 10, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedWhat happens when we use our credit cards? We all think we know. We charge a purchase, we incur a debt. If we pay off that debt within a month, we face no interest charge. End of story. Not quite. Something else important is happening whenever we make a credit card...
| Feb 5, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThere’s an image burned into my brain from childhood: the graffitied train tracks along the intersection of Fifth and Patterson in downtown Dayton, Ohio. It’s a slightly shabby landscape dotted by warehouses, churches, fast food restaurants, and — at the margins — an...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyYou might have missed it amid the impeachment coverage, but the Trump administration has recently rolled out plans for draconian cuts to everything from Medicaid to school lunches. Latest on the chopping block? Social Security disability payments. Cuts to the social...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP SubfeaturedMy parents came to the United States from India in 1971 to chase their “American Dream.” They bought a small community grocery, liquor store, and deli called Renno’s Quality Food Market in Shady Side, Maryland. My parents became entrepreneurs out of necessity. They...
