Environment / Health

Workers Need Paid Sick Leave ASAP

Congress let mandatory paid leave end on Dec. 31. Lawmakers — and employers — need to restore them immediately.

How the oil, gas, and coal industries support and fund white supremacy and far-right politics.

The COVID-19 relief bill will help, but much more needs to be done to combat the pandemic and make the country stronger in the face of future crises.

Natural scientists have done their part by creating vaccines. To get people to take them, we need social science.

Georgia will determine control of the Senate. The votes of Latinos, who have suffered badly during the pandemic, could be decisive.

The Senate GOP leader’s refusal to pass COVID-19 aid without corporate immunity should be the scandal of the year.

Students don’t fail because they are lazy. They fail because something is wrong in their lives — and right now, so much is wrong.

Walmart’s owners are seeing their wealth surge while my former coworkers there go without hazard pay. That has to change.

More communities are standing up to pipelines. The fossil fuel industry wants to make that a felony.

Not even a raging pandemic stopped Republicans from dragging yet another effort to throw millions off their health care to the Supreme Court.