Environment / Health

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.

The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life.

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

Free testing? Less pollution? What’s next?!

Wall construction threatens to put our rural hospital systems in the borderlands at a much higher risk.

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

Rural residents are more likely to be older and uninsured, while 350 rural hospitals are at risk of closing. They can’t afford neglect now.

No family should have to worry about a hospital taking them to court when their loved one is connected to a ventilator.

We’re suffering from a highly contagious virus (plus, the COVID-19 pandemic).

I used to have a prescription for medical cannabis to treat migraines, but now I live in a prohibition state. It’s going to a long quarantine.