| May 20, 2026 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin is spending $57 million to defeat a proposed billionaire tax in California. “I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union,” he explained. “I don’t want...
| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn America’s frontier days, anyone diverting a town’s creek water to their private, profiteering purpose was not merely considered wrong, but guilty of Biblical-level immorality. That was BBE, however — “Before Billionaire Ethics.” Today, a cohort of über-rich...
| May 13, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe U.S. military has been carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific over the past nine months with impunity. On May 8, the U.S. military struck another boat in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one survivor. U.S. Southern...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWho of us has the right to live without fear? This is the question human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has asked fearlessly in El Salvador — the country of my birth — for decades. It’s a question we all need to ask ourselves in the United States as well. For speaking...
| May 7, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe United States took a decisive step toward democracy with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At the time, Black political representation was not just limited — it was nearly nonexistent. African Americans made up more than 10 percent of the population...
| May 6, 2026 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe Trump administration’s decision to reclassify state-authorized medical cannabis products and recognize state-licensed medical cannabis providers is a historic first step toward bringing federal drug policy into the 21st century. For over 50 years, the federal...
