Alcohol: Why do we drink?
Alcohol consumption is one damaging effect among many that flow from this dominant socio-economic system.
Monsanto found liable for French farmer’s illness
A French appeals court ruled Thursday that Monsanto was liable for causing illness in a farmer who inadvertently inhaled one of its...
OxyContin drug maker pleads guilty to federal criminal charges
"Today’s guilty plea comes too late for the millions of lives that Purdue’s crimes destroyed over the past decade.”
Disempowered by Tyson: How big chicken hurts farmers, workers, and communities (and why you...
It’s up to all of us to help make our food system fairer and more sustainable, and to hold Tyson and other companies accountable for their actions.
Why the hell are Democrats keeping your drug prices high?
Vote in the Democratic primaries for true public servants — who care more about advancing the public good than protecting private profits.
Capitol Hill staff prevent journalists from reporting on health care protesters
In at least one case, a journalist says he was forced to delete a video he had recorded.
Rightwing populism in a time of crisis
When the smoke clears, let’s hope the scales fall from the eyes of their supporters and the only recently growing phenomenon of rightwing, anti-science populism is consigned to the dustbin of history, where it belongs.
Striking Massachusetts nurses outwait corporate giant Tenet
Last year’s longest-running strike came to an end in early January when nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, overwhelmingly voted...
Jeb Bush: Don’t Blame Governor Snyder For Flint Crisis, Blame Regulations
"We've created this complex, no responsibility regulatory system."
Choosing life in a pro-violence society
Post-Dobbs abortion access for military dependents is in question.