| Jun 5, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityNews about climate change has been so spooky for so long that it can feel like background noise. We find a way to carry on like normal, even when the news is disquieting. Well, let me tell you I’m having a moment when it’s hard to do that. For me the trigger was a...
| Jun 4, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedWhere some of us see distressed neighborhoods — where families endure poverty and homes fall into disrepair — others see dollar signs. In fact, the Trump administration now brands them “opportunity zones,” offering tax breaks to investors who invest capital there....
| May 15, 2019 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThis op-ed was originally published on April 24. It was updated on May 15 to include more recent developments. We’re living in the most perilous time for abortion rights and reproductive freedom since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. While some erosion of...
| Feb 27, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedFor the past 20 years, I’ve walked at least nine miles a day on the body shop floor of the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, where I help assemble the Chevy Cruze. In a few weeks, when GM shutters our plant, I’ll walk my last mile. I don’t...
| Dec 10, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedWe should have told them to be more specific. When President Trump and his fellow Republicans in Congress called their massive tax overhaul last year the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” most of us assumed the jobs would be in the United States. Now we know...