| May 20, 2020 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFor many Americans, vote-by-mail will be a matter of life and death come November. In a pandemic, it is immoral to force voters to choose between their health and their freedom to vote. And it is immoral to knowingly trigger a major outbreak of the coronavirus when...
| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’ve ever had a parent or loved one incarcerated, you know how scary it can be. There’s so much that can go wrong in prison, and neither you nor your loved one have much control over it. Thanks to mass incarceration, millions live with this fear every day — 64...
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| May 13, 2020 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThere’s a general sentiment today that multimillionaire corporate chieftains are pigs. But I think that’s unfair. To pigs. Pigs are remarkably intelligent animals with a sense of social responsibility to the common good of the group. Compare that to the pompous and...
| | Rights / DemocracyIf you want to see some mild misogyny disguised as jokes, I recommend Jerry Seinfeld’s new standup special on Netflix “23 Hours to Kill.” In addition to giving us an observational Seinfeldian take on smartphones, he shares his point of view on heterosexual marriage....
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA random pedestrian spit on a 26-year-old woman on her way to the gym in her San Francisco neighborhood. In New York, a stranger chased and struck down a woman who appeared to be of Asian descent. And in Texas, a man stabbed a family of three at a store because he...