| Jul 25, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyJuly 30 marks a very important anniversary in our modern political history. Fifty-three years ago in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law, creating two programs that would disproportionately improve the lives of older and low-income...
| Jul 24, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySatirist Donald Kaul delighted readers for half a century with the dark humor he discovered in everything from having his hair catch fire while fiddling with a water heater to what he called Richard Nixon’s “unctuous manner.” Like Thomas Jefferson and John...
| Jul 18, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump didn’t fly to Europe to meet with NATO, European leaders, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He got there by stepping through the looking glass. Once on the other side, he made a series of extraordinary statements. He accused Germany of being...
| | Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedThis week, I thought I would write about food stamps and farmers markets. People on food stamps, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), receive their benefits on a card that can be read like a credit card. Crucial to allowing...
| Jul 17, 2018 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh isn’t just a likely vote against Roe, or an enabler of brash executive authority. He’s also a vocal supporter of a conservative legal “philosophy” that’s designed to block action...
| Jul 11, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBefore major news organizations pronounce someone dead, they ought to check the person’s pulse. Take, for example, a recent New York Times screed prematurely pronouncing the Our Revolution political organization — launched only two years ago by veterans of the...
