| Jan 29, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedHealth care is big business in the United States. So big it can be hard to wrap your head around. America’s largest health care company, the UnitedHealth Group, pulled in over $100 billion in revenue in just the fourth quarter of 2024 alone. For the full year, the...
| Jan 22, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs President Trump takes office, one of his first agenda items is to slash taxes on corporations and the rich. The results will be more inequality and less revenue for the programs Americans rely on. The good news? States can make their own tax codes more equitable....
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOver three score years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower had a warning for America. “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex,” Eisenhower exhorted in his 1961 farewell address. “The...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs he left office, President Biden warned of an emerging oligarchy in this country — rule by and for a small number of wealthy people and corporations. After donating heavily to President Trump’s campaign, the fossil fuel industry in particular has already begun to...
| Jan 15, 2025 | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIf you grew up in Southern California, you don’t need a weather person to know which way the Santa Ana winds blow. These dry winds originate in the Great Basin and sweep down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. They lower the humidity and raise the...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyYou’re reading the words of a formerly undocumented immigrant. When I fled El Salvador four decades ago, I was 12 years old and alone. I was escaping the country’s civil war, where U.S.-backed death squads had made murders and rape our daily reality. I reunited with...
