| Sep 26, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors PicksIt took 100 years, but America has returned to its unequal past. With a vengeance. The year many consider the height of the Gilded Age, when John D. Rockefeller’s wealth was at its peak, was exactly a century ago, in 1918. By that time, Rockefeller had amassed about...
| Sep 19, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedSeptember 11 is already an annual day of mourning. But while the nation grieved over victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency announced a plan future generations may well grieve as a tragedy in its own...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRepeatedly throughout this election cycle, mainstream corporate media outlets have declared the insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party dead. These insurgent candidates, often self-identified as democratic socialists, are exemplified by Vermont Senator Bernie...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyNike’s latest “Just Do It” ad campaign includes a number of A-list athletes: LeBron James, Serena Williams, Odell Beckham Jr. — and most controversially, Colin Kaepernick. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Kaepernick — who played quarterback...
| Sep 18, 2018 | Editors Picks|Rights / DemocracyWhen Christine Blasey Ford came forward to report that President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, sexually assaulted her in 1982, you could cue the response: Why didn’t she speak out then? Why didn’t she go to the police? There’s...
