| Jun 12, 2024 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyPresident Biden once pledged to adopt more humane immigration policies than his predecessor. But in practice, as immigrant rights advocates have documented, his administration has escalated the attack on the legal right of people facing life-threatening conditions to...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA recent bill passed by the House of Representatives claims to regulate the cryptocurrency industry and protect consumers. But the bill is a Trojan horse designed by an industry flush with cash — the real kind. The Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis op-ed was originally published on June 14, 2023. We’ve updated it slightly for Juneteenth 2024. Juneteenth celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. But over 150 years later, discriminatory public policies have prevented African Americans...
| May 29, 2024 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOn a good day in December 1983, I cooked Vienna sausages and grits on a borrowed kerosene heater that — in my poverty-stricken state — felt like another mouth to feed. Every day I had to buy fuel for it. I’d vowed to lift myself and two boys out of destitution as soon...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyLife is unpredictable. And sometimes, no matter how hard you work, life throws curve balls that hit you in the gut. That’s what our tax dollars are supposed to be for — a helping hand when we’re most in need. More than once in my life, the social safety net came...
| May 22, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI love my job. Every day I get to answer phone calls from some of the tens of millions of Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act and help them get the health care benefits they need. Even though I do an essential job, my employer — the federal call center run...
