| Jun 28, 2023 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIn May of 1933 in Berlin, Nazis gathered in the streets, built a gigantic bonfire, and burned thousands of books. The books had been seized from the city’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. The nonprofit institute was the first in the world to focus on the science of...
| Apr 19, 2023 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyGrowing up in Milwaukee, the local branch of the public library was always just a bus ride away. But when my family moved to central Pennsylvania when I was entering high school, we lived in a rural region that didn’t even have a public library. In the ‘90s, before...
| Apr 12, 2023 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThere’s no question that parenting has gotten harder in this country. Gun violence is now the leading killer of children in this country, a brutal fact made clearer with each new school shooting. Child care is out of reach for many parents, while the rising cost of...
| Jan 11, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyExcuse me for using explicit language here, but it seems to me that today’s most vulgar expression of right-wing extremist dogma is its unhealthy obsession with banning books. It’s a political perversion that, ironically, its participants usually...