| Jul 27, 2022 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s January 2026. The Republican president thanks Congress for banning all abortions and makes an enthusiastic plea for a law that would require a national registry of pregnant women, so their pregnancies could be subject to surveillance. Far-fetched? Not the way...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAlthough we haven’t even gotten through this year’s midterm congressional elections, it’s still not too early to start examining some of the characters who hope you’ll make them president in 2024. I know, you don’t want to… but we must. That’s because corporate elites...
| Jul 13, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPerhaps you remember Senator Barry Goldwater, the GOP’s fringy, far-right-wing 1964 presidential nominee who famously said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” Today, however, the core of the Republican Party would boo Goldwater’s right-wingism as...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMuch of my adult life has been spent homeless or incarcerated. Now I help homeless people and returning citizens. I’ve lived on the streets, been in Hollywood films, owned my own footwear service, rubbed elbows with a Saudi Prince, and even sung for Donald Trump at...
| Jun 29, 2022 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOften when we get bad news, someone on the sidelines will say “look on the bright side” and offer some pablum to make us feel better. But with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, there ain’t no bright side. According to the Guttmacher...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRegardless of anyone’s views on abortion, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson took away a reproductive right that a half-century of hard-fought judicial precedent had determined was constitutionally protected. In doing so, the court set a dangerous...
