| Apr 10, 2024 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyEver wonder where your taxes go? Each year, the Institute for Policy Studies releases a tax receipt so you can find out. One item always stands out: the Pentagon — and the contractors who profit off it. In 2023, the average taxpayer spent $2,974 on the Pentagon. Of...
| Feb 28, 2024 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDuring my time in prison, I lived in hell. I witnessed horrific abuse, suffered from a critical lack of mental health care, and was treated as less than human. Guards even taunted inmates that we couldn’t change the system because our right to vote would be stripped...
| Aug 2, 2023 | Environment / Health|HP FeaturedI remember being a young girl, no more than seven, and older people telling me: “Sorry we destroyed the planet. Now it’s your responsibility to fix it.” At such a young age, I didn’t understand what those words meant. But it wouldn’t be the last time I heard them. I...
| Dec 8, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedDuring the first wave of the pandemic in April 2020, my boyfriend asked, not unkindly, if I’ve ever been diagnosed with anything besides generalized anxiety disorder. I was relieved that somebody had finally asked about my mental health. All spring and summer 2020, I...
| Dec 9, 2020 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedAs the semester ends, I fear many of my students will fail my class. Most will pass, thanks to their hard work and a generous grade curve, but I’ve never had this many students failing or dropping the course before. The Washington Post reports that an unprecedented...