| Jan 28, 2026 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI’m a kindergarten teacher in St. Paul, Minnesota, working hard and contributing to the diverse community I love. But with two children, it’s hard getting by in this precarious time — now exacerbated by terror in our streets. Even before internet personalities drummed...
| Jan 26, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFrom 1920 until 1938, a flag on Fifth Avenue in New York City proclaimed an uncomfortable reality to passers-by on New York’s busy streets: “A man was lynched yesterday.” In the South, where Jim Crow held a vice grip on the government 60 years after the end of the...
| | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMore Americans now support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) than keeping it. A January 13, 2026 Economist/YouGov poll found that 46 percent want to eliminate ICE, compared to 43 percent who support preserving it. It’s a trend that’s been growing...
| Jan 21, 2026 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIn the mid-1960s, I joined the freedom movement in the South as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Those were heady years, and I am proud of my small role in the great achievements of that time. Our...
| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyJust when America needs stronger child labor protections, the Trump administration is seemingly abandoning enforcement altogether. A disturbing new analysis from Good Jobs First reveals that enforcement cases for a range of workplace violations declined by 97 percent...
| Jan 14, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOn January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis — a city long enriched by immigrants and now under assault from thousands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents. Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother of...
