| Feb 6, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt was noon one recent Saturday in Northern Michigan, and temperatures were 30 degrees below 0. Winter storm warnings were blaring about the necessity of staying indoors, with dire reminders of the lethal consequences for being outside. People had 10 minutes at best...
| | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedAs a fourth-year medical student, I’ve learned plenty about caring for patients with common illnesses and injuries. But as a native of fire-ravaged Northern California, and a student in Pennsylvania — where I hear regularly about communities torn apart by the...
| Jan 23, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyWe either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or we fry. That’s the conclusion of another new blockbuster study on climate change, this one from the National Academy of Sciences. Our fossil-fuel industrial economy, the study details, has made for the fastest...
| Jan 16, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthIn the new film Isn’t It Romantic, actress Rebel Wilson plays a woman who suffers an injury and wakes up trapped inside a romantic comedy. The trailer shows one incredibly attractive man after another making romantic gestures to her. Rebel Wilson, I should note,...
| Jan 9, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWhile Americans were quietly preparing to ring in the New Year, the EPA gave families a deadly present to start the year off wrong. On December 28, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal that would effectively weaken the Mercury and Air Toxics...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / HealthThe science on climate change is clear: All countries desperately need to restructure fossil fuels out of their economies. Naturally, the Trump administration has recklessly ignored this evidence. In every way, it’s tried to make it easier to extract and burn...
