Cartoon: What Smell?

| Jul 26, 2023 | Cartoon|Rights / DemocracyGet the full-resolution version here.

Housing Is a Human Right — We Need to Recognize It

| Jul 19, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn the wealthiest country on the planet, too many people still lack access to housing. The pandemic revealed the full extent of the U.S. housing crisis. Where were the roughly 580,000 people living unhoused in 2020 to go under “stay at home” orders? And what about...

Extremists Want to Ban Discussing Their Abortion Bans

| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyUnfortunately, it’s 1984 again in America. Not the year. The book. George Orwell’s classic novel tells of a far-right totalitarian clique that uses “newspeak” and “doublethink” to impose their rigid, anti-democratic doctrine on society.  Their regime held power...

Cartoon: Men of the Cloth

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What Decades of Social Work Taught Me About Poverty

| Jul 18, 2023 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf my decades of work as a social worker taught me one great lesson, it’s this. Poverty is an entrenched system of political choices by self-serving lawmakers, not a personal failing of ordinary people. Poverty is not, and never has been, a crime.  I’ve worked with...

Cannabis Laws Are Changing. Drug Testing Must Change Too.

| Jul 17, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyVoters and politicians are reshaping America’s marijuana laws for the better. The possession and use of cannabis is now legal for medical purposes in 38 states and legal for adult recreational use in 23 of those.  Unfortunately, antiquated and discriminatory drug...