| May 21, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedTransit is essential. It’s how we get to health care appointments, parks, school, and work. Essential workers, small businesses, and under-served communities throughout the country depend on transit. Transit is a key component of economic opportunity, jobs, and a more...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWe are at a perilous time, when our most basic freedoms are at risk. It is vital that we not hand President Trump even more power to wreck our democracy than he already has. Among other things, that means not confirming anyone he nominates to be a federal judge. In...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySince the start of his second presidential term, Donald Trump seems to be inspired by the country of my birth: the United Arab Emirates. On his first day in office, Trump announced his goal to end the United States’ practice of birthright citizenship. Soon after, his...
| May 14, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySocial Security is all that stands between millions of Americans and poverty in old age. Two-thirds of seniors would lose most of their income if Social Security payments ceased. One in seven have essentially no other income — and if their already modest Social...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyUnlike alcohol and many other psychoactive substances, marijuana is incapable of causing a lethal overdose. Nonetheless, sensational accounts of overdoses from allegedly tainted marijuana products continue to proliferate. Again and again, these claims are debunked....
| | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedLet’s say you’re a general manager at a fast food restaurant. You work 55 hours a week — not at all uncommon in the field — and earn a salary that comes out to less than $13 an hour. Last year, a federal rule would have made you eligible for a raise. Under rules set...
