| Jun 4, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn the largest eviction of a homeless encampment in recent history, around 100 unhoused people were recently forced to vacate Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest — or else face a $5,000 fine and up to one year in jail. The forest was the last hope for the encampment’s...
| | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedIn early 2018, I remember sitting at my kitchen table, trying to make sense of how the 2017 Trump tax law was supposed to help families like mine. I’d read headlines promising “middle class tax relief.” But when tax season rolled around, there was little relief to be...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe right wing routinely demonizes family-friendly policies of liberals as “social engineering.” But look out! Here come those same politicians, putting on MAGA hardhats and firing up their political bulldozers to push one of the most arrogant and intrusive social...
| May 28, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedAlejandro thought that driving full-time for Uber offered freedom — flexible hours, quick cash, and time to care for his young son. But that promise faded fast. “There are hours when I make $20,” he told me. “And there are hours when I make $2.” As his pay dropped, he...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe House recently passed a massive Trump budget bill that will cut trillions in taxes for the ultra-wealthy while eviscerating Medicaid, SNAP, and other services for working Americans. It now moves to the Senate. This bill has been called a massive transfer of wealth...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyLike nearly a third of U.S. adults, I was raised Catholic. So when Pope Leo XIV was elected, I took note. What stood out to me was not just our shared nationality, but the legacy of his chosen name. His predecessor, Leo XIII, issued Rerum Novarum, an 1891 encyclical...
