Environment / Health

Paper Receipts Could Be the Next Plastic Straws

Paper receipts generate enormous amounts of waste each year — and hardly anyone needs them.

Two-thirds of Americans — and nearly all Democratic presidential candidates — now agree that pot prohibition is more harmful than pot itself.

Also known as “the right side of history.”

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect our democracy — and our planet.

Big relief groups often leave poor and rural areas on their own. That gives us an opportunity to come together.

We stood up to our senator to save our future. Will you join us?

Instead of looking at the real reasons students struggle, one Arkansas lawmaker wants to deny them school lunch funding.

Safe injection sites and medication-assisted treatment may be controversial, but they work. We need them now.

Indigenous Alaskans consider the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sacred land. So should other Americans.

For decades the U.S. has tried to stop drug traffic and made the problem worse. We should treat the root causes of addiction instead.