| Jan 18, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs many of its own members privately admit, Congress has become a pay-to-play lawmaking casino — closed to commoners, but offering full-service access to corporate powers. But there’s another government entity that’s even more aloof from workaday people: the Supreme...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFrom the onset of marijuana prohibition, criminalization advocates have sought to advance their position — and unduly influence the public — by greatly exaggerating the supposed strength of the cannabis flower. Modern prohibitionists are continuing to engage in this...
| Jan 11, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyExcuse me for using explicit language here, but it seems to me that today’s most vulgar expression of right-wing extremist dogma is its unhealthy obsession with banning books. It’s a political perversion that, ironically, its participants usually...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI was delighted to learn that New Jersey has become the first state in the country to require public schools to teach media literacy to K-12 students as a way to combat misinformation. Everyone should be as lucky as I was to learn from someone like my fifth grade...
