| Jan 30, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFormer Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz just announced he may run for president as an independent centrist candidate in 2020. I have some concerns about billionaires, however well-intentioned, running the country. For one thing, people generally pay a lot of attention to...
| Jan 23, 2019 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe United States, by all metrics, has one of the cruelest prison systems in the world. In addition to having 25 percent of the world’s prison population (with just 5 percent of the world’s people), U.S. prisons use tortuous solitary confinement, tolerate...
| Jan 15, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedAs the government shutdown drags on, the image of federal workers lining up at food pantries has dramatized just how many workers live financially close to the edge. By one estimate, almost 80 percent of U.S. workers live paycheck to paycheck. Miss one check and...
| Jan 9, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWhile Americans were quietly preparing to ring in the New Year, the EPA gave families a deadly present to start the year off wrong. On December 28, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal that would effectively weaken the Mercury and Air Toxics...
| Dec 26, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedLately there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future of humanity. In October, the United Nations issued a major report warning of a climate crisis as soon as 2040. The day after Thanksgiving, the Trump administration tried to bury the...
| Dec 24, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFor years, Republicans in North Carolina have tried to roll back voter rights in the interest of “preventing fraud.” But now, one of their own — Republican Mark Harris in the state’s 9th congressional district — stands credibly accused of paying a consultant who may...
