| Jun 23, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRecently leaked data revealed that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and several other U.S. billionaires have paid zero federal income taxes in some past years. This has Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell up in arms — but not because of what the scandal reveals about our...
| | 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 | Rights / DemocracyI’m a PhD student studying collaborative approaches to governance, comparing them to more typically combative approaches in our representative democracy. Here’s what I’ve learned: People tend to frame their arguments in universal terms (“What I want is best for...
| | 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...
| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFifty years ago this month, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a “full scale attack” on drug use. It was the beginning of the War on Drugs. Nixon — and many presidents since — promised the War on Drugs would save lives. Trillions of dollars later,...
