Environment and Health
Overhaul the USDA
For decades, the agriculture department has been indifferent to struggling rural communities. That has to change.
Why Working People Spell ‘BOSS’ Backwards
Grocery giants like Kroger are refusing employees hazard pay while buying their own stock with their extra profits.
Why Some Men Reject Environmentalism
Research links embracing fossil fuels to conservative ideas about masculinity. Can these ideas change?
We Need More Partisanship, Not Less
Democrats shouldn’t compromise their solutions to pander to a GOP that is part of the problem.
Operation Snail Speed
Blink and you’ll miss the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the U.S.
Planet Plastic
The vast tonnage of this trash increases every minute, with an afterlife lasting centuries.
Essential Workers Take the Risk, CEOs Take the Reward
Walgreens employees got just 18 cents an hour in hazard pay while their CEO made $17 million.
Workers Need Paid Sick Leave ASAP
Congress let mandatory paid leave end on Dec. 31. Lawmakers — and employers — need to restore them immediately.
Fossil-Fueled Fascism
How the oil, gas, and coal industries support and fund white supremacy and far-right politics.
A Welcome Stopgap, But Not Nearly Enough
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.
