Environment / Health

A Simple Prescription for a Longer Life: Equality

Epidemiologists say it’s no coincidence Americans now live shorter lives than their counterparts in more equal economies.

Pence’s disastrous public health record makes him the natural choice to lead Trump’s coronavirus response.

There are few clearer ways to see an administration’s choices than its budget. Here’s what we found in the president’s.

In our corporate-run health system, consumer “choices” are shaped entirely by profit-seeking monopolists.

The flu kills far more people than coronavirus. The panic isn’t just irrational — it’s taking on a darker edge.

Blowing up mountains, bulldozing sacred sites, guzzling groundwater — the wall is turning border ecosystems into a grim dystopia.

Be present. Empathize. Don’t scold them for their problems or try to explain why they’ll have to suck it up.

Industry-friendly regulators are letting chemical companies flood the country with toxins. It should be a scandal.

Greta Thunberg teaches Davos a lesson.

The climate and mass extinction crises are interwoven — but we are equipped with the solutions.