| Jul 19, 2023 | 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...
| Jul 12, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAn older generation remembers President Richard Nixon desperately insisting, during the Watergate scandal, “I am not a crook.” Along the same lines, right-wing Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett implores, “this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan...
| Jun 7, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIn the Disney movie Frozen, the snowman Olaf famously said: “Some people are worth melting for.” But as Disney itself has discovered, extremist legislators are definitely not. All of corporate America needs to learn that lesson. Like many companies, Disney made...
| May 17, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA federal advisory committee has unanimously recommended that the Food and Drug Administration allow the sale of Opill, an over-the-counter birth control pill. Coming amid a widespread assault on reproductive health care, this could be a game-changer. Margery Gass, an...
| Feb 8, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRepublicans are resorting to their age-old tactic of manufactured moral outrage to distract from the fact that they have no economic agenda other than to enrich the already wealthy. It couldn’t have been clearer than in the GOP response to President Biden’s State of...
