| Jun 23, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyI grew up on the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia. We lived in a sewage-ravaged, bug-infested trailer park. I didn’t realize we were poor at first — I thought that’s just how things were. But it was a difficult place to grow up, and as I got older,...
| Jun 16, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedHere’s a thought-provoking bumper sticker: “The system is fixed. We must break it.” This thought came into vivid focus recently when a new report by ProPublica revealed that a nest of preening multibillionaires — led by the likes of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Michael...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRonald Reagan, the most anti-woman president of the 20th century, was buried 17 years ago this June. Too bad his policies weren’t buried with him. Unfortunately, they’re still very much alive today. The Reagan “vision” for America, with its disproportionately...
| | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRev. Dr. Susan K. Smith and Rev. Levon C. Manzie We suspected it for years, and now we know it: Jim Crow was never dead. You might even say he was too mean to die. We know this because in too many places, the forces of racism are raging as laws aimed squarely at...
| Jun 9, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWith straps fastening his body to a gurney, Joseph Wood coughed and snorted as he gasped for breath. Wood’s execution was supposed to take 10 minutes and require one injection. Instead, he tried and failed more than 600 times to acquire air over the course of about...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracySilvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for “Syringes to Cuba” as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign on his popular Facebook livestream. An energetic Cuban American high school teacher in Seattle, Lazo...
