| Sep 12, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThis week, the White House continues its furious hunt for the anonymous official who proclaimed themselves part of “The Resistance” in a New York Times op-ed. Unsurprisingly, the president is “obsessed” with it, CNN reports. What really set Trump off — perhaps...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe rich are hiding trillions in wealth. You’ve probably heard about their offshore bank accounts, shell corporations, and fancy trusts. But this wealth isn’t all sitting in the Cayman Islands or Panama. Much of it’s hiding in plain view: maybe even in...
| Sep 5, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyGrowing up, I hated being on “food stamps.” I hated being walked into a welfare office and inspected, queried to make sure we were really our mother’s children. I hated standing in line at the grocery store, knowing we weren’t going to be paying with...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAs wildfires rage across California, some of the people risking their lives to fight them are paid only a few dollars a day. They’re part of a 2.3 million-strong underclass of American employees making sweatshop wages: incarcerated workers. Slave wages are just...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThis summer featured at least a dozen stories of black Americans across the country having the police called on them for little or no reason at all. Famously, two black men in Philadelphia were arrested while simply waiting for a friend at a Starbucks. Then the police...
