| Apr 1, 2020 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / Democracy“COVID-19 is a White man’s disease. It doesn’t seem to infect Black people,” posited Jane, a community leader in New Haven, Connecticut, who had come to the U.S. as a refugee from Africa many years ago. Jane addressed my team of health researchers and members of...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedImagine a country where health care workers lack the equipment necessary to prevent coronavirus infection while treating people suffering from this terrible new disease. Other countries are sending help. But meanwhile the shortage is so bad that citizens have taken it...
| Mar 4, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control released some welcome news recently: Americans are living a tiny bit longer. In 2018, U.S. life expectancy inched up about a month, from 78.6 to 78.7 years. The White House credited “President Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and...
| Feb 19, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthLyndon Johnson had a saying about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation: “They can’t make chicken salad out of chicken (bleep)!” Yet chicken (bleep) is all that the corporate health complex has to work with as it...
| Dec 11, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthWe might expect that corporate billionaires and Koch-funded Republican right-wingers would be howl-at-the-moon opponents of a wealth tax, Medicare-for-All, and other big progressive ideas to help improve the circumstances of America’s workaday majority. But...
