| Jul 31, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedScience. Evidence. Facts. Do these even matter anymore in U.S. policy? They should — especially when it comes to issues that affect our health and environment, like fracking. Concerned Health Professionals of New York and my organization, Physicians for Social...
| Jul 24, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthWhile Donald Trump fans the embers of xenophobia in our country by demonizing caravans of desperate Central Americans headed north, there are other northern-bound caravans he doesn’t mention. These are U.S. citizens crossing our northern border into Canada,...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMedicare for All is a popular idea — 70 percent of Americans say they support it, including 52 percent of Republicans. Why? Because in red and blue states alike, they see the costs of a market-driven system that values profit over patients. There’s perhaps no state in...
| Jul 16, 2019 | Environment / HealthWe’ve been celebrating Columbus Day as a national holiday for over 80 years now. But if we truly want to celebrate the discovery of a “new world,” we’d reevaluate this annual ritual and start celebrating another historic journey instead — one we could start marking...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedCorporate America is looming larger and larger in U.S. public schools. That’s not a good thing for educators, students, or workers. Nowhere could this be more clear than the case of McDonald’s, whose founder once scouted locations for new stores by flying over...
| Jul 10, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you’ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe. Recently in...