We Get Sick, They Get Rich

We Get Sick, They Get Rich

Our current health care system in the United States works just fine — for the corporate executives who run it. Take, for instance, Michael Mussallem, the CEO at Edwards Lifesciences — a California-based company that makes heart valves and assorted other medical...
Finding a Common Language on Climate

Finding a Common Language on Climate

If you don’t already agree with me on something, odds are I can’t convince you I’m right. There’s plenty of science showing that the global climate crisis is already affecting us, that vaccines don’t cause autism, and that humans evolved...
AT&T and Verizon Need to Hang Up On Fossil Fuels

AT&T and Verizon Need to Hang Up On Fossil Fuels

Smartphones are a huge part of our lives. We use them constantly for texts, social media, calls, directions, and finding information online. Even when we’re sleeping, they’re still active, receiving data all night. But those little notifications we get on our...
The Wall Can’t Keep Out Hurricanes

The Wall Can’t Keep Out Hurricanes

Donald Trump loves it when crowds at his raucous right-wing rallies stand and chant in red-faced fury: “Build that wall! Build that wall!” So he keeps fanning their fire by promising to wall off Mexico with a multibillion-dollar “big,...