Health

The price of not stopping the coronavirus, it turns out, is too great for any nation to pay; that’s the lesson the real world is teaching us, and one we have to heed.

"If you want to address human health, you have to address climate health first," said Charles Swanton, who led the research team.

"We cannot continue to spend taxpayer dollars on the President’s manufactured crisis at the border, which is government-sanctioned child abuse."

Our mental health care system needs to disassociate with private health insurance in order to actually benefit U.S. citizens.

Snyder has denied he improperly delayed the release of lead testing results in city schools conducted in October.

Our actions need to be about building a people’s movement that grows in power before and after the November elections.

The flaws of the American chemical regulatory apparatus run deeper than funding or the decisions of the last presidential administration.

“Our leaders’ failure to help bring the vaccines to everyone, everywhere will keep us on a cruel and never-ending cycle of illness, death, and economic suffering.”

A report by the Environmental Working Group reveals that an estimated 2,000 untested chemicals, several of them known or suspected carcinogens, are legally present in conventional packaged foods sold in U.S. supermarkets. But this major public health concern is largely unrecognized by the Food and Drug Administration, which operates under a policy on food additives dating back to 1958.

"At a time when online mobilizations were one of the few forms of protest available to the public, Twitter was seemingly asked to shield the powerful from criticism," said one campaigner. "That should worry all those who care about accountability."