Noam Chomsky: Decades of “the neoliberal plague” left U.S. Unprepared for Covid-19 outbreak
“We should understand the roots of this pandemic.”
Pandemic may have left over 250 million people with acute food shortages in 2020
With the future looking ever more uncertain due to the climate crisis — one of President Biden's top priorities — adapting to new ways of producing and transporting food will be key to our survival.
‘Drop the Medicare eligibility age to 0 right now’: Study warns 35 million could...
"For all the abstracted talk over the last year about health insurance churn, we are likely about to see it on an unprecedented scale in terms of velocity and devastation."
How the rich reacted to the bubonic plague has eerie similarities to today’s pandemic
In our own pandemic – with some of the most well-off now clamoring for the economy to re-open, despite the ongoing spread of the disease – these issues are strikingly relevant.
President Trump threatens to cut federal funding for schools who do not fully reopen...
The Trump administration believes pushing for a nationwide open for in-person classes come fall will be a critical move to just-start the suffering economy. The Trump administration believes pushing for a nationwide open for in-person classes come fall will be a critical move to just-start the suffering economy.
What the American Rescue Plan says about President Biden’s health care priorities – and...
Indeed, for his first big move on health policy, Biden is strengthening private insurance.
DAPL company files lawsuit to finish pipeline and bypass “political interference”
If the company succeeds in getting the ruling they want, they will be able to complete the project without intervention from any federal agency.
As climate change threatens food supplies, seed saving is an ancient act of resilience
In Norway, a high-tech seed vault flooded from melting permafrost. In Montana, locals keep their seeds in the library.
A drug to treat a rare disease used to cost patients $0. Now, it’s...
"The egregious price set by Catalyst cannot be allowed to stand. Patients in America should not be allowed to suffer or die because of the greed of a drug company."
COVID-19: The rich, the poor, the ‘other’
Perhaps, the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic melt down will be the trigger for such a seismic, but essential, change in the way we live.