| Jul 29, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedPeople of the menstruating persuasion: how dare you. The highest court in the land demands to know. This July, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that President Trump, who does not have a uterus, was quite right to object to Obama-era rules under the...
| Apr 6, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt already feels like we’ve lived through a decade in these first few months of 2020. In the midst of a pandemic, the months and years ahead will be like nothing we’ve ever seen. Prophets are predicting the end of days, while climate change activists speculate a...
| Mar 23, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyFor decades, critics of single-payer health care have raised the menace of rationed care, long waits, and “death panels.” Now, in our collective national effort to “flatten the curve” — to slow the spread of coronavirus to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed — we...
| Feb 19, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthLyndon Johnson had a saying about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation: “They can’t make chicken salad out of chicken (bleep)!” Yet chicken (bleep) is all that the corporate health complex has to work with as it...
| Feb 12, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor decades, Republicans have painted anyone left of Barry Goldwater as a “socialist.” Why? Because for a generation raised on the Cold War, “socialist” just seemed like a damaging label. And, probably, it was. You can tell, because many liberal-leaning figures...