| Aug 25, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen you think of the New Deal, what comes to mind? For many Americans, the era has an enduring physical legacy in our parks, tree lines, and trails. On Orcas Island in Washington, hundreds of young men with the Civilian Conservation Corps built Moran State...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn April 1996, Israeli artillery shells rained down on a United Nations compound where hundreds of civilians were taking refuge. As the shells exploded and the building collapsed, 106 civilians died and another 116 were injured. The attack, now known as the Qana...
| Aug 18, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyImmigration agents arrested over 600 undocumented workers at poultry plants across central Mississippi two years ago in what remains the largest workplace raid in U.S. history. This August, on the two-year anniversary of that raid, immigrant rights advocates demanded...
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOn the last night of a recent trip to Minneapolis, I walked along the Mississippi River waterfront. A young man, a worker with the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, asked if I had any questions. We spoke at length about the river and his job, which...
| Aug 4, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityThe California Correctional Center, a prison in the small Northern California town of Susanville, is closing. I was pleased when I heard that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation would be shutting down one of its 35 state prisons, and rushed to...
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis summer, we’ve seen the Bootleg fire rage through Oregon. East Coasters have been breathing West Coast smoke. Massive floods have slammed towns from Germany to China. The town of Lytton, British Columbia burned to the ground. These disasters give a new sense of...