Sunday, June 1, 2025

How Alaska tribes solved their dental health crisis

Dental health therapy takes half the time it takes to train a dentist. And it does what good medicine should: improve public health.

New Supreme Court ruling could make it easier to hold corporations liable for things...

A new SCOTUS ruling could open the door to corporate liability, making it easier to fight for things like climate change awareness, gun control, and the opioid crisis.

As US death toll hits 100,000 people, here’s a simple guide to 12 things...

The president’s “chaotic and incompetent response has fueled the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths.”

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.

Roundup revealed: Glyphosate in our food system

American regulators are dismissing key scientific data and continuing to raise the allowable limits for glyphosate residue in food.

We found over 700 doctors who were paid more than a million dollars by...

Back in 2013, ProPublica detailed what seemed a stunning development in the pharmaceutical industry’s drive to win the prescription pads of the...

Obamacare’s insurance safety net protects many of the millions losing their employer-provided health insurance—but...

Due to the loss of income, people in states that expanded Medicaid under care of the ACA could become eligible for Medicaid coverage.

Medicare for All the ‘only way forward’, concludes Lancet panel in study detailing death...

“Trump’s disastrous actions compounded longstanding failures in health policy in the USA. We know what it will take to create a healthy society. We just need the political will to do it.”

Bayer appeal to dismiss Roundup weedkiller lawsuits rejected by U.S. Supreme Court

Bayer said it plans to replace glyphosate-based weed-killing ingredients in products for non-professionals in the U.S. with alternative active ingredients in order to “manage litigation risk in the U.S.,” but not due to concerns about safety.

Demanding greater say in COVID-19 safety policies, just 9% of Walmart workers report ability...

Labor rights group United for Respect released new polling data regarding Covid-19 precautions as employees demanded to be able to serve on Walmart’s board of directors.