| May 20, 2026 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBetween the three of us, we’ve experienced homelessness in Kentucky, Texas, and New York — different places, same crisis. We’ve all cycled through jails, emergency rooms, and shelters. We’ve all struggled with mental health, trauma, and drug use...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin is spending $57 million to defeat a proposed billionaire tax in California. “I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union,” he explained. “I don’t want...
| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn America’s frontier days, anyone diverting a town’s creek water to their private, profiteering purpose was not merely considered wrong, but guilty of Biblical-level immorality. That was BBE, however — “Before Billionaire Ethics.” Today, a cohort of über-rich...
| May 13, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe U.S. military has been carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific over the past nine months with impunity. On May 8, the U.S. military struck another boat in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one survivor. U.S. Southern...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWho of us has the right to live without fear? This is the question human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has asked fearlessly in El Salvador — the country of my birth — for decades. It’s a question we all need to ask ourselves in the United States as well. For speaking...
| | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyOn May 8, the Republican-controlled legislature of Tennessee passed new redistricting maps that divide Memphis’s 63 percent Black population across three white-majority districts. This eliminates the state’s sole Black-majority district. Republicans in Alabama,...
