| Mar 19, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyLess than a week after President Trump boasted that he’d “brought back free speech,” government agents abducted a student protestor and are trying to deport him. On March 8, without a warrant or charges, plainclothes Department of Homeland Security agents forced their...
| Mar 12, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityThe paper sheet crinkled under me as I shifted on the vinyl examination table. The doctor paused. “Hmm,” she said quietly. This was January 2021. I’d patched together a few gigs since completing a masters degree program the previous year, but was still struggling to...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyElon Musk and Donald Trump have been axing the federal workforce based on the claim that the government is “bloated.” Now Trump’s blaming federal workers for a recession his own policies may be creating. As a candidate, Trump repeatedly promised to reverse inflation....
| Mar 5, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedCEO pay has been skyrocketing for years now, fueled in part by tax cuts for corporations and ultra wealthy individuals. That’s not just unfair to ordinary workers or taxpayers — it’s dangerous for our entire economy. I’ve seen firsthand how these CEO pay practices...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyImagine a high-stakes football game where one team is notorious for playing dirty, skirting the rules, and making the game about brute force, not fair play. Thank goodness for the referee, right? Well, now imagine that right in the middle of the game, the ref gets...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIsrael’s assault on Gaza, with backing from the United States, has created one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet. Now Israel is violating a hard-won ceasefire deal by refusing to admit all aid into Gaza. The Israeli government also passed legislation...
