| Dec 17, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedBaseball had an exciting year — breakout stars, a major cheating scandal, a seven-game World Series. And now it’s capping off the year with a disastrous idea from the owners. Led by the Houston Astros — the same Astros mired in scandals over cheating and domestic...
| Dec 11, 2019 | Rights / DemocracyA lawsuit is taking on the University of California system’s use of the SAT and ACT standardized tests in admissions. The suit claims the tests are “deeply biased and provide no meaningful information about a student’s ability to succeed.” As a...
| Nov 26, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyGracie Mansion, the official residence of New York’s mayors since 1942, hosted billionaire Michael Bloomberg for three terms. The first of these terms began after Bloomberg, then the Republican candidate for mayor, spent an incredible $74 million to get himself...
| Nov 20, 2019 | Economy / BusinessRalph Waldo Emerson once wrote of being leery of a fast-talking huckster who visited his home: “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons,” Emerson quipped. Likewise, today’s workaday families should do a mass inventory of their...
| Nov 13, 2019 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyAre you there yet? By “there,” I mean have you at last become a 1 percenter? It’s the dream of many social climbers to be in the top percentile, but it’s a steep climb — it now takes a paycheck of $515,000 a year to dwell with the swells at the peak. Actually,...
