| May 11, 2022 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s graduation season, which is usually joyful. But many graduates aren’t in a celebratory mood this year — a lesson Vice President Kamala Harris recently learned the hard way. “I look at this unsettled world,” Harris tweeted to 2022 graduates, “and I see the...
| Apr 20, 2022 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn early April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a global scientific body, issued yet another dire report. They warned that we have barely three years to start cutting greenhouse emissions as rapidly as we need to avoid the worst effects of...
| Apr 13, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe great pamphleteer of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine, had much more on his mind than independence from the British. Paine spent his life, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Vanessa Williamson write in a new paper, advocating for a democratic “commonwealth” that shared...
| Mar 23, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / Democracy“I’m scared all the time, even in my sleep.” I will never forget the teary-eyed 8-year-old who told me that — one of the bravest young people I’ve ever met. I met him just five months after the Trump administration took office and began an onslaught of harsh...
| Jan 19, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay reached its shameful 20th anniversary this January. Its legacy is the detention of nearly 800 Muslim men and boys, most without charge or trial. Many have been tortured. President Biden pledged to close the prison, but so far he has...