| Mar 5, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen I was growing up, I was taught that only lazy people asked for “handouts” from the government in hard times. But I’ve learned public assistance isn’t a handout at all — it’s a service our tax dollars pay for. We purchase these promises in good times so we have...
| Feb 27, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe Trump-Musk administration thought they could just stomp on us and our Constitution, replacing democracy with a MAGA monarchy. But they had not reckoned with one fearsome opponent: Senator Chuck Schumer. The Senate’s top Democrat says he’s getting “furious” about...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedAs climate-fueled disasters escalate, insurers are getting richer while leaving Americans in the lurch. Citing climate-related losses, many insurance companies are exorbitantly inflating rates, refusing to renew policies, and delaying, denying, or underpaying claims....
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs parents, we’re horrified by the denial of health care to trans children that’s being imposed on families and communities across this country right now. Through President Trump’s executive orders and harsh anti-trans laws in different states, policy makers are...
| Feb 20, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn a deeply disturbing and unprecedented move, the U.S. has begun transferring immigrant detainees to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. They’re being held without access to their lawyers and families. President Trump has ordered up to 30,000 “high-priority” migrants to be...
| Feb 19, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAmong the flurry of actions by the Trump administration, it could be easy to miss one that poses a grave danger to public health and our planet: a no-holds-barred attack on science. In a series of disturbing moves, the administration has censored scientific research,...
