Progressives Need to Be Brave Enough to Fail

| Oct 16, 2018 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAs the 2018 midterms approach, we’re living in a moment when progressive and even leftist ideas — and unabashed, unapologetic idealism — can be cool. Progressive candidates have won congressional or gubernatorial primaries by ardently supporting so-called radical...

The GOP’s Kavanaugh Playbook Was Textbook Abusive Behavior

| Oct 10, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyShortly before he became a Supreme Court justice, Brett Kavanaugh made two things clear: He likes beer. And he’s a self-righteous beneficiary of presumption of innocence. Indeed, Kavanaugh was provided a considerable benefit of the doubt for a man credibly...

No One In The United States Should Be Poor, Period

| | Economy / Business|Editors PicksThe federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in nearly 10 years. Yet with a stroke of his pen, Jeff Bezos of Amazon raised the wages of hundreds of thousands of the company’s lowest paid workers. In an age of extreme income inequality, this is leap in the right...

Virginians Show the Real Face of Poverty

| Oct 9, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyOn a recent night in Richmond, Virginia, speaker after speaker came forward to talk about the multidimensional reality of poverty. The setting was a hearing held by the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. “I’ve been working for years as a...

Enough Folded Flags: Military Families Speak Out Against the Afghanistan War

| Oct 8, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityYou’d hardly know it from the news, but we’ve been continuously at war in Afghanistan since 2001. The war quietly turned 17 on October 7. Unfortunately, America’s amnesia didn’t prevent Command Sergeant Major Tim Bolyard from being killed in Afghanistan in...