AOC: US must mass produce COVID-19 vaccine for world, or pandemic could drag on...
She calls on the United States to use tools like the Defense Production Act to mobilize mass production of vaccines to export for free around the world.
Learning to live with COVID – the tough choices ahead
To decide what is acceptable on the suppression strategy, we have to confront the fundamental conflict between values in the COVID trilemma.
EPA shuts down leaking oil refinery in St. Croix over ‘imminent’ public health threat
“This is a majority-Black island in a U.S. territory. It is located next to public housing. If this refinery were located most anywhere else in the country, it would have been shut down months ago.”
29 Arrested as Single-Payer Advocates Disrupt Vermont Gov. Shumlin’s Inauguration
During Gov. Peter Shumlin’s recent inaugural address, protesters took part in a sit-in desiring single-payer healthcare, which the governor had promised to create. Those participating in the sit-in were arrested on spot.
Monsanto Hits All the Wrong Notes
In his new album called "The Monsanto Years," Neil Young takes on the the corporate giant for its relentless attempts to profiteer at human expense. And there is no intimidating, buying out, censoring, or escaping this cultural power.
$6 billion in PhRMA Network grants flood the non-profit world, muddying the advocacy landscape
An analysis of the $6 billion in grants distributed by PhRMA and its member companies.
The ultimate stress test
The American world that COVID-19 reveals...
How to keep America’s public workers safe as we emerge from the Covid-19 lockdown
In a crisis like that, public servants will rely on the public to stand with them in demanding that officials implement aggressive safety plans and provide the other resources that workers need.
Living near a toxic waste site could lower life expectancy by a year, study...
“The long-term effect of the flooding and repetitive exposure has an effect that can transcend generations.”
U.S. Covid death toll hits 500,000 as rich nations hoard vaccines, leaving poorer nations...
“It’s in our public health interest, it’s in our economic interest, and, I think most importantly, it’s really in our ethical and moral compass to be doing this.”