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Why Is the US Producing More Oil and Natural Gas Than Ever Under Biden?
The current year has a one-in-three chance of being even hotter than 2023, which was already the world’s warmest year on record, according to analyses conducted by scientific organizations such as NASA...
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Healthcare Under Siege
Gaza’s health system was on the brink of collapse long before October 2023. The densely populated coastal enclave, home to more than two million Palestinians, had been under siege by Israel for 16...
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Cuban Doctors: A Solution To France’s Medical Deserts
France is faced with the reality of medical deserts, and finds itself unable to offer all its citizens sufficient medical coverage. A report by the French Senate highlights the inadequacy of public...
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Birmingham Hospital System Pauses IVF Treatments After Alabama Court Ruling
The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system announced on Wednesday that it was suspending in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for its patients as it assessed what a ruling from the state...
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Big Pharma Is Cheating Americans Out of Publicly Funded Drugs
As the government begins its first-ever price negotiations for a handful of medicines under Medicare, the pharmaceutical industry has launched an all-out legal and PR assault on this meager attempt to...
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Americans Paid $11 Billion for Drugs You Can’t Afford
As the government begins its first-ever price negotiations for a handful of medicines under Medicare, the pharmaceutical industry has launched an all-out legal and PR assault on this meager attempt to...
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Portugal: Three Reflections on an Uncertain Future
The results of the last general elections on March 10 call for a reading that goes beyond the froth of the results. The resounding victory of the right and extreme-right (133 seats in a parliament of...
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The Great Unwinding
The slang definition of “unwinding” means “to chill.” Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo — all words that, on the surface, appear both passive and peaceful. And yet in Google...
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A Treaty To Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic Hangs in the Balance
“Me first”—that’s how Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), described the wealthy world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic when he kicked off negotiations for a...
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Rx For Healing a Sick Health Care System: Start With a Strategy
Why has California consistently failed to pass single-payer health care bills? The state has a Democratic super-majority in its legislature, strong unions and social movements, and the world’s...
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Supreme Court Justices Indicate They Probably Won’t Limit Access to Mifepristone
During oral arguments on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court seemed unwilling to entertain notions from anti-abortion litigants regarding the safety and approval process of the abortion drug mifepristone,...
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The UAW’s 2028 National Strike Should Center Medicare for All
Fresh off their historic labor victory against the country’s Big Three automakers, the United Auto Workers (UAW) are laying the groundwork for workers across multiple sectors to join them in a general...
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A 32-Hour Workweek Is Ours for the Taking
The United Auto Workers won many of their demands in their groundbreaking, six-week strike in 2023, but one of them — despite not making it into their new contracts with the Big Three automakers — has...
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The For-Profit Nursing Home Scam
Last June, an elderly stroke survivor residing at Chicago’s Lakeview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center fell to the floor while being transferred by mechanical lift from his bed to a shower chair. The...
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Republicans Have Plans for Working People
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the...
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Average US Taxpayer Contributed More to Militarism Than Medicare in 2023: Report
The average U.S. taxpayer was forced to contribute more to militarized programs than to Medicare and Medicaid combined in 2023, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by the National Priorities...
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When the State Comes for Your Estate
When Tammy Crowder’s phone rang late one evening in February 2018, her eldest sister, Joy, sounded panicked. Their mother, Cleveland Hager, had slipped and fallen on her side, injuring her leg. Unable...
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Ahead of Treaty Negotiations, Hundreds March to ‘End the Plastic Era’
Days before national delegates gather for the fourth and penultimate negotiations to develop a Global Plastics Treaty in Ottawa, Canada, around 500 Indigenous and community representatives, members of...
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Oregon’s Measure 110, A Brief Victory for Drug Decriminalization
Morgan Godvin is an internationally recognized expert on the topic of drugs and justice. She was a leading activist behind Oregon’s drug decriminalization law – Measure 110 – that passed in 2021, as a...
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The Canadian State Is Euthanizing Its Poor and Disabled
For want of a mattress, a man is dead. That’s the story, in sum, of a quadriplegic man who chose to end his life in January through medically assisted death. Normand Meunier’s story, as reported by the...
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Missouri Organizers Submit Signatures For Ballot Measure To Legalize Abortion
A coalition of abortion rights advocates in Missouri moved one step closer to putting abortion rights on the ballot despite legal challenges, delays and a grassroots “decline to sign” campaign waged by...
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Malaria is a Women’s Rights Issue
Walk into any community health centre and look at who is at the bedside of the patients. Women. Young girls who should be in school instead of tending to the sick. Young women who should be at work...
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Work Longer, Die Sooner! America’s Dire Need to Expand Social Security and...
Experts are clear that working into old age often threatens the health and well-being of U.S. seniors. Shameful fact: the plight of U.S. retirees is a global exception. In their pursuit of lower taxes,...
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Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-in-Hand With Junk Food Industry
Manufacturers of the new weight-loss drugs that have taken the nation by storm are salivating at the prospect of how best to extract profits from people. What Americans eat, how they diet and exercise,...
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Climate Crisis-Driven Wildfires in Canada Prompt Air Quality Warnings in US
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted air quality warnings for some states in the upper Midwest of the U.S. Although wildfires in Canada have not yet reached levels seen during last year’s...
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Scientific Literacy, Feminism, Pediatric Nutrition and Public Health
Perhaps one of the most disconcerting aspects of the Covid pandemic, in addition to the mass morbidity, mortality, and public health failures of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nation–is the...
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Shooting Alone
An acquaintance who hails from the same New Jersey town as I do spends his free weekends crawling through the woods on his stomach as part of a firearms training course, green camouflage paint on his...
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Handmaids in America
In the first year of Trump’s presidency, I decided it was time to reread George Orwell’s classic “1984,” which I hadn’t touched for a couple of decades. When I read it again, it was upsetting to find...
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Essential Voices for the Turn Away from Car Dependency
In forward-thinking municipalities across North America, elected officials and staff members can learn important lessons by taking on the Week Without Driving Challenge. As Anna Letitia Zivarts...
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Gaza’s Stolen Healers
It’s been two months since Osaid Alser has heard from his cousin, Khaled Al Serr, a surgeon at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis. Before late March, they had been in...
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