OtherWords
  • About
  • Archive
  • Syndicate
  • Submit
  • Donate
  • Subscribe
Select Page
A Textbook Case of Environmental Injustice

A Textbook Case of Environmental Injustice

| Apr 21, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyEven as the Biden administration commits to environmental justice, people in the Fifth District of Louisiana’s St. James Parish are mobilizing to stop a Formosa plastics plant accused of environmental racism in the majority-Black community. The controversy offers a...
Medicare for All Could Save My Life

Medicare for All Could Save My Life

| Mar 24, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI recently joined Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) as they introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2021 in Congress. For me and millions of Americans, this bill’s passage would not only be life-changing — it could be life-saving. In 2010, I was...
Trump’s EPA Is a Huge Cancer Risk

Trump’s EPA Is a Huge Cancer Risk

| Jan 27, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis January, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society showing  “the sharpest one-year drop in cancer death rate ever recorded” between 2016 and 2017. The society politely pointed out that the Trump administration had nothing to...
What Breast Cancer Taught Me About Health Care

What Breast Cancer Taught Me About Health Care

| Nov 13, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedEvery weekday for six weeks this fall, I had radiation treatment for early-stage breast cancer. This journey has been a lesson in our broken social and economic systems. In May, I saw my obstetrician for pain in my right breast. I had already put off the visit for...
A Textbook Case of Environmental Injustice

Climate Change Is a Poor People’s Issue

| Jul 10, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you’ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe.  Recently in...
Page 1 of 512345»

Creative CommonsExcept where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative 3.0 License.

A project of the:

IPS logo

About

Archive

Syndicate

Submit

Donate

Subscribe

otherwords@ips-dc.org
(202) 234 9382
1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 600 | Washington, DC 20036