We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture
We should be supporting the small farmers who sell at farmers markets, not the corporate giants that hurt our health and environment.
Health
Pursuing Profits in Elder Care Puts Us All at Risk
The UK is turning adult care into an investment proposition, with disastrous results for care givers and residents.
‘Lock ‘Em Up’: An Update for Our Opioid Age
Our wealthiest tell pollsters they value their health over their wealth. What about our health?
Poor People’s Campaign Gears Up for Mother’s Day Launch
A major new report makes the case for a 'fusion movement' against systemic racism, poverty and inequality, militarism and the war economy, and ecological devastation.
The Mosquito Gap
How poverty, climate change, and bad policy put poor people at greater risk from pest-borne diseases.
A Social ‘Trigger Lock’ for the Ages
More equal societies turn out to be safer societies, and researchers have some good ideas why.
Paying Tribute to a Warrior Against Big Pharma: Zahara Heckscher
Until the very end, she used every tool she had to fight against trade rules that protect drug company monopolies and deny patients essential medicines.
Racism is Literally Killing African-American Mothers
The chronic stress of racism endangers black moms of all kinds — from Serena Williams to Erica Garner.
The Big Pharma Family that Brought Us the Opioid Crisis
Who will bring to justice the billionaires who have profited so royally from addiction?