| Sep 2, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFirst, the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court in their playoff game against the Orlando Magic. Then other teams followed suit, leading to a three-day wildcat strike in the National Basketball Association. The Bucks were protesting the police shooting of Jacob...
| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAfter Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, his autopsy report revealed that at the young age of 39, he had “the heart of a 60-year old.” Doctors concluded that King’s heart had aged due to the stress and pressure endured throughout his 13-year civil...
| Aug 26, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRory McVeigh wrote The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, a study of the KKK in the 1920s, in 2009 — long before Donal Trump became president. But it could almost be about Trump today. In the 1920s, white, male, U.S.-born Protestants worried they were losing status, economic...
| Aug 12, 2020 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFederal troops may be standing down in Portland for now. But Donald Trump has also dispatched federal agents to Cleveland, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City, and Albuquerque. Trump claimed his orders are intended to “restore law and order.” But this isn’t about...
| Jul 29, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe smell of tear gas is hard to describe, but it’s horrifying. It pinched my nose from the inside, burning deep in my nasal cavity. My throat slammed shut as my body tried to block out the fumes. My eyes burned, oozed tears, and clamped closed. “I can’t see,” my...