| Aug 29, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPoliticians often gab about the “private sector” and the “public sector,” as if these two categories of economic activity operated as two completely separate worlds. In reality, these two sectors have always been deeply intertwined. How deeply?...
| Aug 28, 2018 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn the last days of his life, an old video of John McCain surfaced on the internet. It’s 2008. He’s running for president and fielding questions from voters in Minnesota. A middle-aged woman takes the microphone. “I can’t trust Obama,” she complains of McCain’s...
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn August 1921, sheriff’s deputies in West Virginia — later joined by federal troops — massacred striking mineworkers using machine guns and aerial bombardment, in what’s now known as the Battle of Blair Mountain. Nearly a century later, the government is again...
| Aug 22, 2018 | Economy / BusinessBack in 1999, no executive personified the soaring pay packages of America’s CEOs more than Jack Welch at General Electric. Welch took home $75 million that year. Welch credited that exorbitant salary not to his own genius, but to the genius of the free market....
| | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAfter a school year marred by shootings, districts across the country have responded this year with calls for more “school resource officers” in classrooms. As a result, many students are returning to schools that feel more like prisons — and in fact form...