Environment / Health

Inequality Is Literally Killing Us

Again and again, studies show that the richer wealthy Americans become, the shorter the rest of us live.

Working-class Americans die younger. Here’s what your town can do about it.

Polluters lost the fight on climate science, so they’re spending money on something else: false solutions.

If my patient needs a heart procedure, we should decide that together — not some insurance company.

Politicians think the climate problem will go away if they can make the protesters go away. They’re wrong — and they can’t.

As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.

Maybe we’re banning the wrong kind of cartridge.

Life expectancy in my Western Pa. town is on its way down. But there’s hope — if we fight harmful myths about poverty.

Trump’s environmental policies are a daily slog of bad news, but committed activists are slowly changing the story.

Absent legalization, the feds can’t regulate the vaping contaminants that seem to be making people sick.