| Dec 5, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAs the federal government closed shop for a day of national mourning for the late President George H.W. Bush, an image came to my mind. It’s an ad by Bush’s supporters claiming presidential candidate Michael Dukakis “allows first degree murderers to have weekend...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWisconsin Republicans have made the news again. After losing the governor’s race (but maintaining control of the state legislature, thanks to gerrymandering), Republicans have passed a series of measures to limit the power of Democratic Governor-elect Tony Evers. For...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOur death rituals for public figures are evolving. For a moment, obituaries favored the late President George H. W. Bush with the banal pleasantries usually afforded to deceased presidents. Well-wishers from both sides of the aisle hailed Bush’s patriotism, service,...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedCancer kills. Every American knows that. What every American doesn’t know: Cancer is also helping some Americans become exceedingly rich. And these Americans will do most anything to keep their windfalls coming, even prey on the fragile psyches of the families cancer...
| Nov 30, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBelgian waffles. Belgian beers. Americans love ’em. But what Americans really need from Belgium has nothing to do with beer or breakfast treats. We need Belgium’s much more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The English philosopher Francis Bacon once long ago...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA two-panel cartoon I recently saw showed a character with a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his sign says: “We don’t know what happened after that.” It was, of course, a retort to Donald Trump’s campaign to...
