What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic? What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic?
One Health is a pan-species approach that could ward off the next big outbreak. But first, it has to overcome the anti-science ethos of the Trump era.
Dec 14, 2020 / Feature / Jimmy Tobias
The British Labour Party’s Anti-Semitism Problem The British Labour Party’s Anti-Semitism Problem
For their opponents, the Labour Party’s self-inflicted wound over anti-Semitism is the gift that keeps on giving.
Dec 10, 2020 / Feature / Rachel Shabi
Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data? Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?
Thanks to the Microsoft founder’s support, the IHME can make its own rules about how to track global health. That’s a problem.
Dec 3, 2020 / Feature / Tim Schwab
How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System
Corporate consolidation has left the US with a health care system built for profit, not people.
Dec 2, 2020 / Feature / Susie Cagle
Privatizing Puerto Rico Privatizing Puerto Rico
The rushed sell-off of the territory’s electrical utility is part of a larger move to gut public goods for private profit.
Dec 1, 2020 / Feature / Ed Morales
Unforgetting: Confronting El Salvador’s—and My Family’s—Past Unforgetting: Confronting El Salvador’s—and My Family’s—Past
Doing so helped me to understand not just the violent history of El Salvador, but also that of my country of birth, the United States.
Nov 24, 2020 / Feature / Roberto Lovato
It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too! It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too!
When universities have to borrow just to keep the doors open, bankers and rating agencies call the shots.
Nov 20, 2020 / Feature / Eleni Schirmer
‘I Experience a Hollowing Fear Any Time I’m Stopped by Police’ ‘I Experience a Hollowing Fear Any Time I’m Stopped by Police’
Gutting the Fourth Amendment has turned tiny traffic violations into abusive traffic stops and coercive searches for millions of Black drivers like myself.
Nov 19, 2020 / Feature / Philip V. McHarris
Why the Left Should Ally With Small Business Why the Left Should Ally With Small Business
It will strengthen labor and help fight the increasing concentration of corporate power.
Nov 18, 2020 / Feature / Stacy Mitchell and Susan R. Holmberg
The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War
Since the 2003 invasion, doctors in Fallujah have been reporting a sharp rise in birth defects among the city’s children—and to this day, no one knows why.
Nov 9, 2020 / Feature / Laura Gottesdiener