Friday, April 26, 2024

A single-payer health care fix even without a working majority

It’s likely that the Trump-Ryan failure will push state legislatures to consider expanding Medicaid—putting even more people under the public insurance system.

No, Paul, it wasn’t because of “growing pains”

America and the rest of the world must hold our collective breath, hoping that the next elections – the midterms of 2018 and then the presidential election of 2020 – set things right.

USDA drops plan to test for Monsanto weed killer in food

Much more research is needed to understand the impact on human health of chronic dietary exposures to pesticides.

On the ground activism: Hundreds march in Chicago to protest against GOP health care...

"This bill puts at risk health care for over a million people, billions of dollars for Illinois and tens of thousands of jobs."

Monsanto faces hundreds of new cancer lawsuits as debate over glyphosate rages on

The biotech giant refutes the classification and insists that glyphosate is safe and does not cause cancer.

Behind a corporate monster: How Monsanto pushes agricultural domination

We must support ecological farming systems that do not need the inputs provided by Monsanto or any of the other pesticide, seed and GMO conglomerates.

Republicans, obsessed with gutting Obamacare, other social programs: That’s called committing political suicide

It will be time for these politicians that have no vision to begin writing their political obituaries, because they will face political extinction in the elections of 1018 and 2020.

While one Louisiana town’s lead-tainted water system is replaced, dozens of others deteriorate

Federal help available to states for upgrading water systems is a drop in the bucket compared to what is needed across the country.

Facing famine, 20 million people need food, not bombs

Famine in these four countries is avoidable.