Team leader | Health care, the environment, social issues

Dave Hage has written about labor, economics and medicine for more than 30 years at publications including the Star Tribune, the New York Times, the Nation and US News & World Report. As an editor or reporter, he has been a Pulitzer Prize winner once and a finalist twice.

Hage has written or co-written three books, including "No Retreat, No Surrender,'' a chronicle of American labor in the 1980s, and "Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work,'' a book about poverty and welfare reform in the 1990s. He lives with his wife, Therese, in St. Paul, with grown children in New York, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. He got his start in journalism as a jazz critic and eagerly awaits the next new Coltrane record.


Review: What happens when a celebrity doc eats junk food for 30 days? (Nothing good)

"Ultra-Processed People" investigates how the products of food science are harming consumers.


How great a killer is COVID?

Some comparisons show what we face.


Winona LaDuke turns to hemp farming, solar power to jump-start the 'next economy'

"I wanted to have goats, too, but the kids sort of drew the line at that," she laughs. "I'd say the jury is still out on goats."


Albert Camus helps us understand our responses during this crisis

In his short novel "The Plague," his characters have their courage and moral principles tested, much like we're experiencing now.


Tips for making the most of the Edinburgh International Festival and the larger Fringe that it spawned

How to bring order to the chaos of the Edinburgh International Festival and its concurrent Fringe.


Discovering the Baroque beauty of a revived Naples

Cleaner and safer than it was 20 years ago, the city is a storehouse of art and history.


Naples renewed

Cleaner and safer than it was 20 years ago, the city is a storehouse of art and history.


Walking through the Yorkshire countryside on a very British vacation

On the path of cozy pubs and classic landscapes in Yorkshire.


Walking through the Yorkshire countryside

On the path of cozy pubs and classic landscapes in Yorkshire, England.


Former adviser takes a fresh look at Jimmy Carter in new biography

NONFICTION: A tough-minded and clear biography concentrates on ex-president's stumbles as well as successes.