| Mar 23, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyTwo years ago I was panicking, making hundreds of phone calls to postpone my wedding that was a few days away. It was March 2020. A global pandemic had reached the United States and changed each of our lives in ways we never imagined. Millions of Americans would lose...
| Jan 26, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’re under the impression that the filibuster is an important tool in the toolbox of American democracy, you’ve been misled. The filibuster is a made-up Senate convention that lets a minority of senators block votes on bills that have majority support. Under...
| Dec 22, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThere’s no getting around it: 2021 has been a tough year. As with 2020, many of us are glad to see its back end. Do let the door hit you on the way out. Yet, there is more than just Senator Joe Manchin’s coal and Omicron fears in our stockings this holiday season....
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIt would be easy to survey the end of 2021 and see another year in wreckage. There’s the pandemic that won’t end. Rising inflation. Climate disasters. A democracy that looks creakier by the day. And that was before West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin hit the brakes on...
