Tag: health care
Restoring our water systems should be top priority for Biden administration
Healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the “nice-to-have” column of environmental progress.
Why America’s future depends on rebuilding our factories
Biden’s Build Back Better campaign will make commonsense investments in U.S. manufacturing that put millions to work and ensure a reliable, high-quality supply of critical goods.
How Americans can help the frontline workers battling Covid-19
The pandemic highlighted the essential work that nursing home staff members perform—and the necessity of treating them as essential workers from now on.
How Mitch McConnell flouts the will of the American people
Right now, one person—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—stands in the way of America’s fight against COVID-19.
Teachers are on a tightrope with no safety net
The hybrid model teachers are being thrust into during the pandemic isn’t sustainable without more resources and support.
Why Trump’s health care move is an empty promise
Trump’s executive order can’t replace the protections and systems in the Affordable Care Act.
Online charter schools are not a solution to education in a...
Coronavirus and racism combined with online charters would create a plague of injustice that will never be wiped out.
Uninsured up from last year and pandemic likely to exacerbate this...
The Census concluded that while employer-sponsored insurance coverage increased last year, directly bought coverage, such as Obamacare, declined.
How America continues to fail the health care workers battling the...
For too many Americans, health care workers are out of sight, out of mind.
FDA-required tests on puppies slows progress to Covid treatment
Dosing puppies with drugs designed for humans won’t make people safer. In fact, it poses serious risks to human health.
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Iran retaliation revives scrutiny of US military bases across the Gulf
Iranian strikes on Gulf energy sites and renewed threats against American installations are exposing how decades of US military expansion in the Middle East have tied Washington to regional regimes while increasing risks of wider war.
Traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump Iran post raising insider trading concerns
Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.
Mo. Senator Eric Schmitt’s asinine SHIELD Act would classify blowing whistles as ‘Obstruction of...
Meanwhile Schmitt ignores blatant obstruction by Bondi’s DOJ.
No king but madness reigns
Today I'll survey several factors feeding this unfolding fiasco.
Multi-million dollar agreement to import giant pandas from China collapses
Reports from advocacy groups like SF Zoo Watch and In Defense of Animals call on Mayor Daniel Lurie to halt new animal acquisitions and transform the 100-acre site from a traditional exhibition-based zoo into a 21st-century ecological park.