| Jul 18, 2023 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf my decades of work as a social worker taught me one great lesson, it’s this. Poverty is an entrenched system of political choices by self-serving lawmakers, not a personal failing of ordinary people. Poverty is not, and never has been, a crime. I’ve worked with...
| Jul 12, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / Democracy“The most important advice about saving for retirement is this,” the New York Times’ retirement savings guide begins: “Start now.” If young Americans had a nickel for every time they got that advice, well… they wouldn’t have to worry about retirement. But many young...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedI consider my days in the sun as a young, organic farmer to be the most rewarding work I’ve done. The days were long, hot, and unforgiving, but I felt free. Farmers have my utmost respect and I believe them to be the backbone of America. But for young people like me,...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAn older generation remembers President Richard Nixon desperately insisting, during the Watergate scandal, “I am not a crook.” Along the same lines, right-wing Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett implores, “this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan...
| Jun 28, 2023 | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen you think of Americans whose music has made a lasting difference, you might think of Scott Joplin, Woody Guthrie, Maybelle Carter, Harry Belafonte … or Roger Payne. Who? I came across Payne in a June obituary reporting that he’d died at age 88. Yes, I...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyRecent weeks saw two terrible tragedies at sea. In one, five explorers died when the Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic. In the other, over 600 refugees — most of them women and children — drowned in the Mediterranean when their fishing trawler sank....
