Environment / Health

Cutting Food Aid Promotes Hunger, Not Work

As a kid, food stamps helped me eat, study, and succeed as an adult. Americans today deserve the same investment.

For me, it’s a gateway to pain relief. For others, its prohibition is a gateway to mass incarceration.

We could easily fund health care for all by ending military boondoggles and fruitless wars. Here’s how.

Tens of millions of Americans use CBD products. Most don’t realize it’s entirely unregulated.

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

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

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

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

How will billionaires and insurers survive?

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