| Mar 23, 2022 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedLong used to cheap gas at the pump, Americans are experiencing serious sticker shock these days. News headlines link this sharp increase to Russia’s war on Ukraine. But that assumes oil companies have no control over the price of oil — that high prices stem...
| Mar 16, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs part of the sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its European partners are cracking down on Russian oligarchs. They’re freezing assets and tracking the yachts, private jets, and luxury real estate holdings of these Russian...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThere’s a bittersweet battle taking place in Stuarts Draft, Virginia. Workers at the Hershey Company’s second-largest factory are seeking to unionize. In response, the candy manufacturing giant is throwing the full force of the corporate union-busting playbook at...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyCongress recently announced a bipartisan budget deal to fund the federal government through 2022. It’s a lopsided budget if there ever was one. Even after America’s longest war in Afghanistan ended last year, military spending isn’t going down. In fact, it’s...
| Mar 9, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityAs Vladimir Putin watched the opening ceremony of this year’s Winter Olympics, the rest of the world watched as Russian troops massed along the borders of Ukraine. Twenty days, 32 medals, and one global doping scandal later, the world watched Russian troops invade...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWhy are so many employers struggling to find workers right now? One reason is the unprecedented federal backlog of work permits for immigrants. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that issues these permits, is sitting on 1.4 million...
