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Safe Tap Water Should Be a Human Right

Safe Tap Water Should Be a Human Right

| Oct 5, 2022 | Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe water drips lethargically from the tap, if at all. Its appearance shifts from chemical brown sludge to ghoulish clouds. The accompanying stench is revolting. Unsafe tap water is unacceptable in any modern society. But from Michigan to Mississippi to Tribal...
What a Debate Over Grizzly Bears Shows About Politics

What a Debate Over Grizzly Bears Shows About Politics

| Nov 10, 2021 | Environment / HealthThis week, while watching an online panel about grizzly bears, I noticed something that encapsulates a larger issue in this country. Grizzly bears aren’t COVID vaccines or abortion, but in the Northern Rocky Mountains, they are a culture war issue. I’m a sociologist,...
Farm Workers Are Dying. Blame Our Exploitative Food System.

Farm Workers Are Dying. Blame Our Exploitative Food System.

| Jul 21, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedTwo farm workers died during a recent heatwave in Washington and Oregon. While this is outrageous, it’s not unusual. Farm workers die in hot weather every year. Part of the reason is climate change — as temperatures soar, outdoor working conditions get deadlier. But...
We Don’t Need Another Oil Pipeline

We Don’t Need Another Oil Pipeline

| Jun 9, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyA decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the Canadian company Enbridge, is in the midst of a controversial upgrade. That has sparked fierce resistance from Indigenous communities living along the route. Line 3 is being replaced to transport nearly 800,000 barrels...
Poverty and Wealth Clash in the Hamptons

Poverty and Wealth Clash in the Hamptons

| May 5, 2021 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyIt’s tough being rich. For one thing, you have to be on constant alert to keep commoners from encroaching on your turf and upsetting your sense of proper social order. Consider the angst of the swells who summer in the Hamptons, an ultra-tony seaside enclave of New...
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