Environment / Health

Planet Plastic

The vast tonnage of this trash increases every minute, with an afterlife lasting centuries.

Walgreens employees got just 18 cents an hour in hazard pay while their CEO made $17 million.

Congress let mandatory paid leave end on Dec. 31. Lawmakers — and employers — need to restore them immediately.

How the oil, gas, and coal industries support and fund white supremacy and far-right politics.

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.

Natural scientists have done their part by creating vaccines. To get people to take them, we need social science.

Georgia will determine control of the Senate. The votes of Latinos, who have suffered badly during the pandemic, could be decisive.

The Senate GOP leader’s refusal to pass COVID-19 aid without corporate immunity should be the scandal of the year.

Students don’t fail because they are lazy. They fail because something is wrong in their lives — and right now, so much is wrong.

Walmart’s owners are seeing their wealth surge while my former coworkers there go without hazard pay. That has to change.