Environment / Health

The Planet Is Not a Dumping Ground

Petrochemical companies are racing to make more plastic — and force poor countries to become landfills for it.

Record numbers of Americans are seeking mental health care and struggling to get it. Here’s what it’s like.

The longer it takes the world to get vaccinated, the more variants we’ll see.

Climate change is caused by people acting in groups, after all, and sociology is the study of people acting in groups.

The fight to guarantee paid sick time and family leave faces an uphill battle, but advocates aren’t giving up.

On even the most arcane issues, people talk past each other. But there’s another way.

These meddlesome young people sure act entitled to a habitable planet.

… while the planet burns.

Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?

The Build Back Better plan’s historic investment in public transit would have a tremendous positive impact.