| Feb 16, 2022 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyEarlier this year, a small group of women and I gathered to post artwork around Washington, D.C. We were celebrating the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which protected women’s constitutional access to abortion. As the conservative Supreme Court considers new...
| Jan 26, 2022 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyLate January marked the 49th anniversary of Roe. V. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. It could very well be the last. In 1973, Roe codified the right to terminate a pregnancy up until viability — around 23-26 weeks. Anti-abortion...
| Jan 5, 2022 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe defeat of Donald Trump in 2020 was supposed to put an end to America’s delusional national politics. The quashing of the January 6 insurrection — and the brief, near-unanimous revulsion among members of Trump’s party for that violence — provided some hope that the...
| Nov 3, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRalph Waldo Emerson once told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own integrity: “The louder he talked of his honor,” Emerson wrote: “the faster we counted our spoons.” Today, America has not one, but six guests in our...
| Sep 8, 2021 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBack in the 19th century, Texas was awash in vigilante groups. In those dark years, various self-appointed “law enforcers” modeled after the Texas Rangers embarked on a decades-long campaign of ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples in the western...
