| Dec 1, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedWith vaccination rates on the rise, Americans are hoping for a return to some semblance of normalcy this holiday season. Unfortunately, as people start traveling more and buying holiday gifts, we’re facing supply chain disruptions and rising costs, from gas to...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAre free and fair elections too much to ask for? Thanks to partisan gerrymandering — and its ugly cousin, prison gerrymandering — the answer is often yes. High-stakes redistricting battles now underway will help determine next year’s midterm elections. In a perfect...
| Nov 17, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyLast year’s holiday season was not exactly a merry one for the U.S. Postal Service. In the lead-up to Christmas, overwhelmed postal workers had to leave gifts sitting in sorting facilities for weeks. They delivered just 38 percent of greeting cards and other nonlocal...
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was the 26th attempt to get the nations of the world to fix the climate crisis. During the summit, the Washington Post reported that countries have been under-reporting their emissions, so the negotiations are based on...
| Nov 10, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe drama over the Build Back Better Act has revealed the power of narrative in our political landscape. It is not enough to put forward policy proposals that actually help people, pay for them with taxes on the wealthiest, and then try to pass those proposals into...
| Nov 3, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThere are many ways in which the United States is not one country. I’m not referring to red states versus blue states, or racial or ethnic divisions. What I mean is that the United States, where countless corrupt billionaires and dictators have stashed their loot, is...
