Environment / Health

What Breast Cancer Taught Me About Health Care

by Andrea Flynn

Your ability to survive a health crisis shouldn’t depend on your employer, zip code, or skin color.

by Jill Richardson

The EPA wants to ban research that doesn’t violate the privacy of its subjects. That means less science — and fewer rules for polluters.

by Jim Hightower

Big oil companies are drilling public oil for free, thanks to a “temporary” loophole that’s stayed open for 25 years.

by Theo Wuest

40 percent of Americans can’t afford a $400 emergency — and more emergencies are coming.

by Khalil Bendib

How will billionaires and insurers survive?

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California’s wildfires and blackouts show the dangers of entrusting our power to for-profit corporations.

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Last year, the biggest fossil fuel companies paid zero dollars in taxes — and actually received billions in rebates.

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A new study shows just how bad a nuclear war could get. We need a plan to eliminate this risk permanently.

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Again and again, studies show that the richer wealthy Americans become, the shorter the rest of us live.

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Working-class Americans die younger. Here’s what your town can do about it.