Environment and Health
Medicare for All: A Fatal Condition
How will billionaires and insurers survive?
We Need Publicly Owned Utilities
California’s wildfires and blackouts show the dangers of entrusting our power to for-profit corporations.
Our Tax System Rewards Polluters
Last year, the biggest fossil fuel companies paid zero dollars in taxes — and actually received billions in rebates.
Don’t Forget: Nuclear Weapons Are an Existential Threat
A new study shows just how bad a nuclear war could get. We need a plan to eliminate this risk permanently.
Inequality Is Literally Killing Us
Again and again, studies show that the richer wealthy Americans become, the shorter the rest of us live.
How Local Communities Can Tackle the ‘Death Gap’
Working-class Americans die younger. Here’s what your town can do about it.
My Patients Deserve Medicare for All
If my patient needs a heart procedure, we should decide that together — not some insurance company.
How Fossil Fuels Pollute STEM Education
Polluters lost the fight on climate science, so they’re spending money on something else: false solutions.
The Climate Strike Is the New Boston Tea Party
Politicians think the climate problem will go away if they can make the protesters go away. They’re wrong — and they can’t.
No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care
As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.