| Oct 9, 2019 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMy campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is in an uproar over a video to promote the school’s homecoming that features no students of color. We are one of the whitest schools in the country, but we are not unique in having a race problem. In that regard,...
| Oct 2, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWhen I signed my letter of intent to medical school, I signed up to work with patients, not insurance companies. I wanted to be part of a team of nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and respiratory therapists — working together to make sick people feel better. I soon...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedTeenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has a message for policy makers: “Listen to the scientists.” As an engineer, I was glad to hear that. But I also believe it’s also vital for scientists to be vigilant about whom they listen to. For years, corporations funded...
| Sep 25, 2019 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI lost everything during the financial crisis. The government decided that the perpetrators of the crisis were “too big to fail” and bailed them out with our money. I was not bailed out. Today, a decade after the crisis, I’m part of a grassroots-led effort to ensure...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAt this September’s Democratic presidential debate — held at a historically black college in Houston — some 14 million Americans tuned in to watch the 10 leading candidates debate each other for the first time. The debate set another important precedent: All of the...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyNearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers began striking earlier this month, demanding that General Motors pay them their fair share of the billions in profits the company raked in last year. The response from General Motors was shocking. The automaker, which...