| 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...
| Apr 28, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOh great — here comes a new stealth attack on the fragile, life-sustaining natural resources of Planet Earth. This latest assault by Wall Street alchemists would redefine one of our most basic resources: water. Everyone knows that water is “invaluable” — it’s...
| Apr 22, 2020 | Economy / BusinessOne public service that people really like and count on is the post office, which literally delivers for us. Anti-government ideologues and privatization dogmatists, however, hate the very word “public,” and they’ve long sought to demonize the U.S. Postal Service,...
| Sep 4, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyFor generations, our country has been Mother Nature’s steward, setting aside and protecting important expanses of public lands for posterity. But what if these lands and natural resources suddenly got a “steward” who was a predator, rather than a protector? Meet...
| Dec 24, 2018 | Economy / BusinessThis spring, President Trump created an inter-agency federal task force to propose structural reforms in the U.S. Postal Service. In only two months, the task force (comprised entirely of top Trump officials) zapped out a down-and-dirty report with this key...