| Mar 25, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedSocial distancing is hard, and it’s not fun. I don’t question that we are doing what is necessary. Until better testing, treatment, and prevention are available, it is. But quarantining us in our homes separates us at a time when we need connection. And you know...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracySuddenly, “social distancing” is our new national etiquette, abruptly supplanting handshakes, hugs, gatherings, and other forms of ingrained communal behavior by us humans. It can be awkward. Disconcerting. Isolating. Yet as we frantically scramble to deter the health...
| Mar 24, 2020 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWash your hands. That’s life-saving advice right now. But what does it mean for people without access to water? A pandemic exposes all of our broken structures, from lack of health care to a government that responds more to Wall Street than the common good....
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityOn the morning of September 11, 2001, my colleagues and I handed out water on Lower Broadway. We were lawyers who served some of the poorest communities in New York, but quenching the thirst of stunned victims proved to be the best thing we could do at the time. In...
