| Mar 25, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracySuddenly, “social distancing” is our new national etiquette, abruptly supplanting handshakes, hugs, gatherings, and other forms of ingrained communal behavior by us humans. It can be awkward. Disconcerting. Isolating. Yet as we frantically scramble to deter the health...
| Mar 24, 2020 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWash your hands. That’s life-saving advice right now. But what does it mean for people without access to water? A pandemic exposes all of our broken structures, from lack of health care to a government that responds more to Wall Street than the common good....
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityOn the morning of September 11, 2001, my colleagues and I handed out water on Lower Broadway. We were lawyers who served some of the poorest communities in New York, but quenching the thirst of stunned victims proved to be the best thing we could do at the time. In...
| Mar 23, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyFor decades, critics of single-payer health care have raised the menace of rationed care, long waits, and “death panels.” Now, in our collective national effort to “flatten the curve” — to slow the spread of coronavirus to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed — we...
| Mar 17, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWestern medicine is predicated on the “germ theory of disease.” That’s what it sounds like: the theory that germs like bacteria and viruses cause disease. If you want to prevent disease, our standard theory goes, you prevent exposure to germs, or you...
