| Dec 1, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedWith vaccination rates on the rise, Americans are hoping for a return to some semblance of normalcy this holiday season. Unfortunately, as people start traveling more and buying holiday gifts, we’re facing supply chain disruptions and rising costs, from gas to...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedStop me if this sounds familiar. It’s been kind of a hard year, but I felt optimistic about the holidays. My wife and I had just scheduled our COVID-19 boosters. Even better, we’d been able to get our young child vaccinated. We imagined a cautious return to simple...
| Nov 17, 2021 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracySometimes, when watching Congress in action, I can’t decide whether to laugh, cry, or check myself into an insane asylum. Not all lawmakers are political hacks, quacks, and corporate toadies, but that contingent does seem to dominate. Most infuriating is that while...
| Oct 13, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyTexas’s cruel new anti-abortion law is more than just an unconstitutional restriction on reproductive choice. It’s also an egregious new frontier in late capitalism. In addition to banning abortion beyond six weeks into pregnancy, the Texas law allows private citizens...
| Sep 22, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAs lawmakers scramble to finalize a historic jobs and infrastructure package, huge fights are underway to figure out how to fund it. The simplest, most effective, and most popular way is to tax the extremely wealthy, like the billionaires who’ve seen their collective...
