| Sep 9, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyA deadline is looming. Millions of lives, trillions of dollars, and our democracy all hang on whether we show up to meet it. I don’t mean the election. I mean the census. Every 10 years, the Census Bureau attempts to count every person living in this country —...
| Mar 17, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs Americans do everything they can to stay safe and limit their exposure to COVID-19, we are seeing more clearly the great divides in our society. While the virus doesn’t discriminate, we are seeing that its impacts certainly do. In a pandemic, there’s a huge...
| Mar 3, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe 2020 presidential campaign is well underway, and it’s noisy. Candidates make promises, break promises, offer assurances, and spin the news constantly. What’s one way to get a clear look at their priorities? In the case of a sitting president, by looking at their...
| Feb 5, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyYou might have missed it amid the impeachment coverage, but the Trump administration has recently rolled out plans for draconian cuts to everything from Medicaid to school lunches. Latest on the chopping block? Social Security disability payments. Cuts to the social...
| Jan 22, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWith Greta Gerwig’s new take on Luisa May Alcott’s classic 19th century novel, Little Women, in theaters, I decided to reread the book. The novel communicates Alcott’s beliefs about proper morality and gender roles through stories of a family of four...
