From Massachusetts, some tax-the-rich inspiration
The super rich, worldwide, are regularly cowing their critics. Bay Staters have pounded back.
Study links childhood residential proximity to polluted St. Louis creek with increased risk of...
The study's findings examined baby teeth to investigate proximity to the creek and cancer risk.
Pope Francis’s remarkable peacemaking life
As Francis demonstrated, there's no better way to live life than to practice, teach and promote nonviolence.
Wednesday night massacre at CDC: Resignations, walkout, and a showdown over vaccine policy
After the removal of Director Susan Monarez, top CDC officials resign and staff walk out as RFK Jr.’s HHS faces bipartisan alarm.
‘Maddening’ proof plastics industry knew recycling was false solution in 1974, new document shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.
The nuclear energy dilemma: Climate savior or existential threat?
Nuclear power has promise and peril, posing many challenging questions for environmentalists.
Archaeology can now tell us how people have muffled and challenged economic inequality across...
Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very long time spans on a global scale.
‘The time is now:’ Over 200 economists send a letter to Congress endorsing Medicare...
"We encourage Congress to move forward with implementing a public financed Medicare for All plan to achieve the equitable and affordable universal health care system that the American people need."
Plastics endanger human, planetary health at ‘every stage of their lifecycle,’ study finds
From fossil fuel extraction, production, use, recycling and disposal, the study concluded that plastics are a "grave, growing, and under-recognized danger" causing disease and death.
Where are the women CEOs? Should we care?
Women CEOs are becoming slightly less rare at large corporations. But simply replacing men with women at the top of the income scale won't lead to greater equity.