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.
This scientist created a rapid test just weeks into the pandemic. Here’s why you...
Irene Bosch developed a quick, inexpensive COVID-19 test in early 2020. But she was stymied by an FDA process experts say made no sense.
How union solidarity improves everyone’s health care
"People want to see us being treated well so they’re treated well. We were fighting for everyone.”
Standing strong as a rock
Stand with Standing Rock. December is Global Month of #NoDAPL Action.
Koch-funded hit piece backfires: Shows Medicare For All would save ‘whopping $2 trillion’ over...
"Even if you take the report's headline figures at face value, the picture it paints is that of an enormous bargain. We get to insure every single person in the country..."
Private health insurance stocks ‘in free fall’ as Medicare for All gains momentum
"Insurance industry stocks dropping as the Medicare for All movement heats up – we've got some serious people power on our hands!"
1982 American Petroleum Institute report warned oil workers faced ‘significant’ risks from radioactivity
“It is imperative that Congress hold hearings soon to examine and expose the full extent of the threat oil and gas waste poses to families and workers throughout America.”
Making sense of a viral military
A military spouse’s perspective on the Pentagon’s flawed response to the pandemic.
My Covid-19 teaching year
A world unraveling amid smoke and death and how one teacher and her students dealt with it.
FDA approves lab-grown chicken for first time
The FDA's approval determined that a California company's lab-grown meat is safe to eat, but will need to go to the United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service next.