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Don’t Let Insurers Get Away With Fleecing Homeowners

Don’t Let Insurers Get Away With Fleecing Homeowners

| Feb 27, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedAs climate-fueled disasters escalate, insurers are getting richer while leaving Americans in the lurch. Citing climate-related losses, many insurance companies are exorbitantly inflating rates, refusing to renew policies, and delaying, denying, or underpaying claims....
Who Should Pay for Climate Disasters?

Who Should Pay for Climate Disasters?

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedRebuilding from California’s recent wildfires will cost more than a quarter of a trillion dollars — an unprecedented amount. The estimated damage from Hurricane Helene in the Southeast is almost as much, on the order of $250 billion. Who will pay for that damage? It’s...
The War on Science Is a War on the Public

The War on Science Is a War on the Public

| Feb 19, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAmong the flurry of actions by the Trump administration, it could be easy to miss one that poses a grave danger to public health and our planet: a no-holds-barred attack on science. In a series of disturbing moves, the administration has censored scientific research,...
Why Politicians Keep Blaming DEI for Disasters, Even When It’s Laughably Untrue

Why Politicians Keep Blaming DEI for Disasters, Even When It’s Laughably Untrue

| Feb 5, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn this chaotic news cycle, America’s worst plane crash in a generation already feels a generation old. But the administration’s response to the tragic January collision that killed 67 people over the Potomac is worth revisiting. Not only because the loved ones of...
Let’s Embrace our Instinct for Collective Action — In Bad Times and Good

Let’s Embrace our Instinct for Collective Action — In Bad Times and Good

| Jan 29, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen my multigenerational family of six evacuated our home this January, we wondered if the fires visible from our front porch would engulf our house as we fled. Text reports of friends losing homes bombarded my phone as we settled into a cramped hotel room for the...
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