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.
Native Americans have shorter life spans. Better health care isn’t the only answer.
So what’s ultimately behind this low life expectancy?
Inside the Trump administration’s man-made hunger crisis
Trump officials were warned repeatedly that cutting off food aid to refugees in Kenya would lead to violence and death. They did so anyway, and thousands starved.
US coronavirus cases pass 6 million, 180,000 deaths as schools struggle to reopen
Even though the number of hospitalizations is trending down, the number of new infections per day remains around 40,000.
Lessons from Katrina: This organization tries to get Hurricane Florence survivors home quicker
Many in North Carolina were left homeless by the storm and its still-receding floodwaters. This nonprofit wants to shrink the amount of time it takes to rebuild after a disaster.
Women’s cancer rates are rising in the Oil Gulf: Is global heating causing it?
There is a lot of fine particulate matter in the air in the Gulf, and if hotter temperatures make them harder on the human body, then that would be a problem.
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.”
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.”
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.
Big Food and Hotel Giants Trying to Peddle Plastic ‘Authenticity’
More and more businesses across the country are adopting an attitude providing a buy-local, un-corporate, anti-chain alternative for customers. But beware of the corporations that are playing the profitable imitation game—don't be duped.