The coronavirus outbreak has shown that capitalism is failing
If there’s ever been a time to radically change our social service policies, this is it.
U.S. consumers exposed to BPA at levels 5,000x above EU recommendations
U.S. consumers are exposed to more than 5,000 times more bisphenol-A (BPA) than the EU considers safe, and that has prompted environmental...
Failure to protect: policing mental illness in North America
The current moment requires that we recognize the crises of mental health and very likely homelessness that will come about as a result of the global pandemic and that we call upon authorities to prepare to deal with them in a more humane way than they have in the past.
How Trump’s immigration crackdown threatens ‘Made in America’ dairy-industry miracle
Idaho farmers frustrated with far-right rhetoric, endless congressional fighting over undocumented Hispanic workers.
The Agriculture Attitude
This Thanksgiving, let's support, celebrate and share the amazing bounty that dedicated farmers like Lee Jones produce — for us, for the land and for the future.
Poorly protected postal workers are catching COVID-19 by the thousands. it’s one more threat...
More than 50,000 workers have taken time off for virus-related reasons, slowing mail delivery.
SCOTUS rules on ban on gender transition care for minors
The Supreme Court ruled that Tennessee's ban did not violate "U.S. constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law by discriminating on the basis of sex" and upholds ban against treatment for minors.
Sanders introduces bill aimed to combat corporate polluters and clean up toxic drinking water
“It is not a radical idea to demand that when people in the world’s richest country turn on their taps, the water they drink is free of toxic chemicals.”
5 ways we need to improve health care accessibility for vulnerable populations
The United States is a study in health care inequality.
In New York Times op-ed, US physician blasts ‘lucrative system of for-profit medicine’
"Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore."