| Aug 27, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedOn a recent night on duty at my hospital, I was called to the room of a 60-year-old patient from Puerto Rico. He had a treatable cancer that had now turned end-stage and metastatic. But he refused medical interventions such as intubation or resuscitation. Upon...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWe Americans tend not to pay much attention to our northern neighbors. Often, entire election cycles can come and go without anyone running for national office saying anything about Canada. But that’s changing. Canada now looms much larger in our politics, mainly...
| Aug 6, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedYou probably haven’t heard about it, but there’s another mass migration coming across the U.S.-Mexico border. However, these aren’t Central American families fleeing horrific conditions back home — only to be separated, incarcerated, traumatized, and...
| Jul 24, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthWhile Donald Trump fans the embers of xenophobia in our country by demonizing caravans of desperate Central Americans headed north, there are other northern-bound caravans he doesn’t mention. These are U.S. citizens crossing our northern border into Canada,...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMedicare for All is a popular idea — 70 percent of Americans say they support it, including 52 percent of Republicans. Why? Because in red and blue states alike, they see the costs of a market-driven system that values profit over patients. There’s perhaps no state in...
