Environment / Health

No More Empty Seats At Our Holiday Tables

Overdoses took over 108,000 lives this year. If it acts quickly, Congress can save lives — and keep more loved ones together for the holidays.

Lawmakers should take note: Young people will resist radical efforts to violate our reproductive freedoms and our futures.

Americans across the spectrum voted to raise wages, expand health care, and protect abortion rights. These issues have a common thread.

The immediate impacts are modest, but the order marks a top-level recognition that 100 years of cannabis prohibition were a mistake.

But from Michigan to Mississippi to Tribal communities in the West, millions of Americans don’t have it.

Why poor neighborhoods are often hotter than rich neighborhoods — and what to do about it.

Over 2 million Americans like me are stuck without health care because 12 GOP-ruled states keep refusing to expand Medicaid.

America’s anti-science fringe driving us backward in more ways than one.

The war in Ukraine is blurring the lines between civilian and military nuclear programs.

In football families like mine, the game means pain — and all too often, addiction to painkillers. Lawmakers can help.