| Sep 18, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyEarlier this year, a number of wealthy parents, celebrities, and college prep coaches were accused of offering large bribes to elite universities in order to get their children into schools they didn’t qualify for. Federal prosecutors charged at least 50 people in...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI’m from Johnstown, a town of about 20,000 people in Western Pennsylvania. We used to be a booming steel mill town. But once the mills closed, Johnstown went downhill. If you’ve heard of my town at all, in fact, it’s probably because of our opioid problem. I’ve known...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyMy entire working life has been dictated by offshoring. I’ve spent my career jumping from one factory closing to another. When President Trump was elected, he said: “Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences.” His promises ring...
| | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyI’ll be honest: Writing a weekly opinion column about the environment during the Trump era is depressing — and boring. Every week is the same: “Trump did something harmful to the environment. That’s bad. He should stop. Here are the catastrophic things that will...
| Sep 11, 2019 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyWhile the Trumpistas are presently plowing a multibillion-dollar subsidy into big grain farms, they’re using a tangle of federal red tape to deny a meager level of food assistance to millions of poor families. To qualify for food aid, federal rules say that a family...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn 2015, Waheed Etimad immigrated with his wife and their children to the United States from Afghanistan, where he’d been a translator for the U.S. Army. Etimad began taking courses at Diablo Valley College, studying to become a computer engineer while driving full...
