To Save Rural Hospitals, Pass Medicare for All

| Jul 24, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMedicare for All is a popular idea — 70 percent of Americans say they support it, including 52 percent of Republicans. Why? Because in red and blue states alike, they see the costs of a market-driven system that values profit over patients. There’s perhaps no state in...

A Trump Plan to Throw 55,000 Children Out of Their Homes

| Jul 16, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn 1968 — just a week after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination — Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, or FHA.  The law secured everyone’s right to housing regardless of race, national origin, disability, familial status, sex, or religion. The FHA protects people...

McDonald’s: Stop Exploiting Our Schools

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedCorporate America is looming larger and larger in U.S. public schools. That’s not a good thing for educators, students, or workers. Nowhere could this be more clear than the case of McDonald’s, whose founder once scouted locations for new stores by flying over...

Critics of Campus Activists Don’t Care About Free Speech

| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor most college students, extracurricular activities are a welcome escape from the stress of school. But as student activists move into summer vacation, the consequences for speaking their minds can weigh heavily long after class is dismissed. Across the country,...

Note to Tech Companies: Please Read History

| Jul 10, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedAmerica’s tech giants are accused of many sins, including invading our privacy and even degrading our democracy. But one other commonality among these masters of the code universe is rarely discussed: Virtually no tech CEOs have a background in the humanities, such as...

Climate Change Is a Poor People’s Issue

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you’ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe.  Recently in...