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.
The great unwinding
The failing battle for health and healthcare in these all too disunited states.
3M knew firefighting foams were toxic for decades, documents reveal
Revelations show 3M misled the public about PFAS chemicals’ dangers, contributing to global contamination.
The next phase in Bernie’s revolution has already begun
The fight for Prop 61 in California could be a watershed moment in American health care.
Turn widespread discontent into mass movement
We can turn widespread discontent into a mass movement with the power to transform the nation.
Let’s have a wealth tax to fund Medicare for All
The total amount of tax would be $8.426 trillion. At present, the federal government spends $4.407 trillion annually. The wealth tax would be nearly twice as large.
Intelligence thieves: How toxic pollutants are robbing communities of color
In her new book, author and ethicist Harriet Washington unearths one of the most overlooked aspects of environmental racism.
We have met the enemy and it’s a tiny virus
Hundreds of billions of bucks for arms, nothing for hospital beds, medical tests, masks and ventilators.
COVID-19 further exposes inequalities in the global financial system
With a greater public awareness of soaring inequality within countries, it is also important to recognize the deep imbalances across the global financial system.
Over a half-million Americans live near oil refineries with high levels of a cancer-causing...
More than a dozen U.S. oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under...