| Oct 8, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityYou’d hardly know it from the news, but we’ve been continuously at war in Afghanistan since 2001. The war quietly turned 17 on October 7. Unfortunately, America’s amnesia didn’t prevent Command Sergeant Major Tim Bolyard from being killed in Afghanistan in...
| Oct 1, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis summer, the White House proposed selling off the United States Postal Service to private corporations. As a 22-year postal worker, I recently joined my coworkers, our families, and neighbors across the country to rally in support of our public Postal Service. Our...
| Sep 28, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe Brett Kavanaugh confirmation imbroglio shined a bright light on a terrible misconception: that the #MeToo movement is somehow about destroying the careers of powerful men. Again and again, Kavanaugh and his defenders complained that the allegations were...
| Sep 26, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyChristine Blasey Ford has shown remarkable bravery in speaking out about an attempted rape she experienced over 35 years ago. But it’s hard not to fear what comes next. She will tell her story — one she no doubt remembers with painful clarity — but there will be no...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis past week, my private reality and the public reality playing out on the television have diverged. It’s hard to believe that I live in the same world as Senator Chuck Grassley, the Senate judiciary chair trying to Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court. When...
| Sep 19, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedSeptember 11 is already an annual day of mourning. But while the nation grieved over victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency announced a plan future generations may well grieve as a tragedy in its own...
