Bernie Sanders Demands a Stop to the Dakota Pipeline in Open Letter to President...
“It is deeply distressing to me that the federal government is putting the profits of the oil industry ahead of the treaty and sovereign rights of Native American communities."
Add this horror story of teacher charged $109K after heart attack to long list...
"The lesson is, if you live in America and get charged an outrageous medical bill, you better hope you can find a journalist to write about it."
‘What the hell is wrong with them’: GOP senators kill $35 cap on insulin
'Republicans told millions of Americans who use insulin to go to hell.'
“Crime of the century”: How big pharma fueled the opioid crisis that killed 500,000...
“I realized that the big problem here was that we had been seeing it as a crisis, like a natural disaster, like a flood or a hurricane, rather than as a series of crimes.”
New study finds CT scans to account for 5 percent of cancer diagnoses
While some experts caution against CT scans, many believe the modeling used in this study left much uncertainty.
New Study Finds Glyphosate in Breakfast Foods
Glyphosate has been linked to increases in levels of breast, thyroid, kidney, pancreatic, liver and bladder cancers and is being served for breakfast, lunch and dinner around the world.
3M to pay $10.3 billion to settle water pollution suit over PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
“We have reached the largest drinking water settlement in American history, which will be used to help filter PFAS from drinking water that is served to the public.”
Rethinking Medicare for All – slightly
In running a social system, we really need to decide when and how wealth can be used to “buy your way” into a better level of treatment.
War is a poor metaphor for this pandemic
"Wars target enemies and accrue authority to the state. They marginalize vulnerable communities and disenfranchise the people writ large."
This city made access to food a right of citizenship
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: End hunger.