Environment and Health
The GOP Health Plan Would Make the Opioid Crisis Even Worse
"We will give people struggling with addiction access to the help they need," Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail in 2016. We’re in the midst of the worst opioid epidemic our country has seen. More people died last year from opioid overdoses than ever before —...
Jeff Sessions Thinks Pot Is as Bad as Heroin. That’s So Wrong.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently called marijuana use a "life-wrecking dependency" that is "only slightly less awful" than heroin. Really? If that were true, maybe my little brother would be alive. I don't know the full story of my brother's drug use. He kept...
Magical Thinking on Health Care
Donald Trump, the amazing wunderkind of global luxury living — and now our nation's phantasmagoric, fast-charging president — is proving to be a legislative magician. In his campaign, Trump's number one promise was that he would "immediately" repeal the entirety of...
A Climate of Fear
Regulations Can Favor Some Businesses — And That’s Fine
As the Trump regime's anti-environment onslaught begins, there are several terms used by men (and in the case of Trump's cabinet, it's nearly all men) attempting to turn us against protecting the air we breathe and water we drink. Polluting industries become "job...
American Hellscape
In case you were wondering what Republicans have planned for the environment, it's now clear. Some of the ideas aren't new — like mining and logging our national forests. Or giving the green light to controversial oil pipelines like the Dakota Access Pipeline, which...
Ruling by Chaos
As Donald Trump was sworn in, my inbox filled up with concerns about the future of the Environmental Protection Agency. Allegedly, scientists were being censored. References to climate change were being erased. But all that was just a warm-up act. Before we could...
Climate Change Is Now a Local Issue
It's not often that the physical world changes overnight. On January 20, though, it did. On that day — when Donald Trump was inaugurated — our national efforts to combat the causes of global warming were shelved, leaving Americans on their own to protect themselves...
Why This Price Is Wrong
For most people, prescription drugs are a lifeline. For Representative Tom Price, Donald Trump's health secretary nominee, they're a source of profits. Indeed, hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug and health corporation investments line the pockets of the Georgia...
All Women Deserve Access to Tampons, Period
For many women, getting a period for 3 to 8 days every month can be hellish — everything from bleeding, cramps, and fatigue to the humiliating march to the local store for tampons and pads. But these women are incredibly lucky compared to thousands of marginalized...
