The health care fight is far from over
We’re going to have to keep up a winning pressure until health care is a public good available and affordable for every person in our country.
Yes, home care is infrastructure—don’t let them play word games with people’s lives
Infrastructure, like charity, begins at home.
15-minute tumble dry can release hundreds of thousands of microfibers into the air
Every time you stick a load of clothes into a tumble dryer, you may be releasing hundreds of thousands of microfibers into...
Private equity looted Connecticut hospitals, leaving patients and staff in crisis
A new Senate report reveals how private equity firms gutted community hospitals, endangered patients, and left taxpayers and workers to clean up the mess.
DEA Ignores Science, Refuses To Loosen Restrictions On Marijuana
“President Obama always said he would let science — and not ideology — dictate policy, but in this case his administration is upholding a failed drug war approach instead of looking at real, existing evidence that marijuana has medical value.”
Eugenics rears its unsavory head: Vaccine schism saves the intelligent & sacrifices the backward
Right-wing vaccine resistance could remove thousands of Trump voters in critical red states.
Magical thinking on health care
Trump promised to magically repeal and replace Obamacare. Now he's learning that magicians do tricks, not magic.
Empty tables
Food is certainly plentiful in the United States. And yet enough of it never reaches the tables of those who struggle to make ends meet.
Trump administration bans CDC from using these words
A CDC analyst said he was unable to recall a previous time when words were banned from budget documents because they were considered controversial.
Revealed: US funds study on bat coronavirus at Wuhan Institute of Virology
While the current coronavirus outbreak is no doubt zoonotic—originating from animals—, scientists said, ministers and senior government officials claim that the pandemic could have accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.