Mental health illness: a global tragedy by design
The world we are living in, with its constant noise, demands and pressures; the destructive ideologies, divisions and unjust systems, works against such inner quiet and mental well-being.
Millions of Americans face water shutoffs during pandemic
“It’s a package of related factors – institutional racism, environmental injustice, and poverty – which means communities most vulnerable to Covid-19 are the same communities most vulnerable to water shutoffs.”
Sanders, Cummings call on DOJ to investigation generic drug manufacturers’ ‘multi-year conspiracy’ of drug...
"The Department of Justice must hold these bad actors accountable to the fullest extent of the law."
Standing Rock and the return of the nonviolent campaign
There’s something even better than electoral politics and one-off protests when mobilizing citizen power.
What Cuba can teach us about health care
Even Trump supporters agree we can learn something from the country’s universal, low-cost health care system. It’s that good.
20 photos: My seven months of living at Standing Rock
The life that we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle.
Judges are complicit in the opioid epidemic says new analysis
An analysis of U.S. court secrecy, conducted by Reuters, shows that by sealing evidence from the public, judges may have lengthened and deepened the epidemic.
Panic! The coronavirus debacle—who’s to blame?
It is fair to question whether the media has done, or is doing, a proper job of providing accurate information while avoiding the ratings- and revenue-driven temptation to blow the problem out of proportion.
Where is father’s little helper and why is acid cool?
The path forward relies on our ability to ask the right questions, our ability to tell complicated stories, and on our ability to tolerate pain.
How Cuba beat the pandemic: From developing new vaccines to sending doctors overseas to...
For decades, Cuba has heavily invested in its medical and pharmaceutical system, in part because of the six-decade-old U.S. embargo.