| Jun 23, 2021 | Rights / DemocracyThe New Yorker recently published an article about the man who single handedly began the backlash against critical race theory, Christopher Rufo. It is enlightening. Let me call your attention to a few elements of the story. First, Rufo began with footage of workplace...
| Nov 18, 2020 | Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyLet’s talk about turkey! No, not the Butterball now pouting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing — the big bird, 46 million of which Americans will devour on Thanksgiving. It was the Aztecs who first domesticated the gallopavo, but leave it...
| Oct 23, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAmericans are more aware than ever that America has a race problem — and, more specifically, a racial wealth divide problem. As researchers from the Institute for Policy Studies and I found earlier this year, median white families are 41 times wealthier than median...
| Jan 17, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyWe recently learned that Donald Trump referred to African nations and Haiti using a derogatory and profane term. (Accounts differ, but all seem to agree it ended with “hole.”) Writing off an enormous percentage of the world’s landmass and population as inferior isn’t...
| Jan 20, 2016 | Food / FarmingMark Winne, an author and anti-hunger activist, often says that the most important word in “community garden” isn’t “garden.” I saw this firsthand not long ago. Standing in the sun between several small garden plots all morning, it may not have looked like much...
