| Aug 3, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDuring the early 1900s through 1970, millions of African Americans migrated from the deeply segregated agricultural South to the industrial, less segregated Midwest and North. They hoped that escaping from Jim Crow states to cities with plentiful industrial jobs would...
| Jun 14, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis op-ed was originally published on June 19, 2019. We’re reprinting it to mark Juneteenth in 2022. One day in late June, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas. They carried some historic news: Legal slavery had ended some two and a half years ago...
| Jun 8, 2022 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMass shootings are good for gun sales. In the days following the horrific school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, firearm stocks rose. Gun buyers, conditioned to fear new restrictions, tend to run out and buy more weapons after shootings like this one. They seem to believe...
| Jun 1, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI grew up in rural upstate New York, where life was difficult and often isolating. Folks in our community were very poor, but we took care of one another. Neighbors lavished affection and support on my family. Still, there was a deep undercurrent of abandonment and...
