Environment and Health

Prescriptions from a Stable Genius
Is Trump literally trying to kill his supporters?

Elon Musk and the Billionaire War on Public Health
The billionaire Tesla CEO made hundreds of millions more by illegally forcing his employees back to work in a pandemic.

To Save Lives — and Democracy — We Need to Vote by Mail
We need tens of millions of fewer Americans voting at the polls. Sending ballots in the mail is the simplest solution.

Whatever Your Survival Strategy Is, Do That
Feel proud of yourself for getting through this — don’t beat yourself up for not getting through it “better.”

A Simple Solution for the Coronavirus Crisis in Prisons
Releasing low-risk inmates would ease the risk that sky-high prison infection rates pose to all of us.

Reopening the Economy is a Death Sentence for Workers
The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life.

Remembering Our Empathy
Stay at home orders are necessary. But we need to remember that they can be economically, or emotionally, difficult to follow.

The COVID Slippery Slope
Free testing? Less pollution? What’s next?!

I’m a Frontline Nurse in Arizona. We Need Masks, Not a Border Wall.
Wall construction threatens to put our rural hospital systems in the borderlands at a much higher risk.

A Death Sentence for Meatpackers
Meatpackers are contracting COVID-19 and dying. Trump is requiring them to work — and shielding their employers from liability.