What’s Powering the Healthcare Worker Strike Wave? What’s Powering the Healthcare Worker Strike Wave?
Nurses and others have won victories on the picket line they couldn’t achieve at the ballot box.
Nov 1, 2023 / Jonathan Rosenblum
Doctors Are Employees Now. It’s Time for Us to Unionize. Doctors Are Employees Now. It’s Time for Us to Unionize.
Organizing doesn’t just benefit our own working conditions. It can improve the lives of patients, too.
Nov 1, 2023 / Luke Messac
We Know How to Get Good Public Health Policies. Now We Need to Figure Out How to Keep Them. We Know How to Get Good Public Health Policies. Now We Need to Figure Out How to Keep Them.
It’s not enough to come up with good ideas for our broken healthcare system. We need to create the political space to make them stick.
Oct 19, 2023 / Gregg Gonsalves
The Coronavirus Still Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings The Coronavirus Still Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings
The Covid-19 pandemic is not a state of mind—and telling us not to panic isn’t healthcare.
Oct 13, 2023 / Arijit Chakravarty and Martha Lincoln
Reminder: Liberals Can Be Vaccine Deniers Too Reminder: Liberals Can Be Vaccine Deniers Too
As RFK Jr. shows, it's not just Republicans pushing anti-vax conspiracies. That's why the White House needs to take this issue much more seriously.
Sep 28, 2023 / Gregg Gonsalves
America’s Short-Lived Safety Net Has Almost Fully Unraveled America’s Short-Lived Safety Net Has Almost Fully Unraveled
The American Rescue Plan created unprecedented programs protecting parents and young children, renters, and childcare providers. Now they are almost entirely gone.
Sep 15, 2023 / Editorial / Bryce Covert for The Nation
How Nebraska Became a Volleyball Paradise How Nebraska Became a Volleyball Paradise
Covid-19 is back on the rise. We must take precautions, or we could again lose the type of joy that 92,003 fans experienced at Memorial Stadium this week.
Sep 1, 2023 / Dave Zirin
Amid Partisan Politicking, Revelations on a Covid Origins Article Amid Partisan Politicking, Revelations on a Covid Origins Article
Given the ongoing uncertainty over the origins of the pandemic, little was expected from Tuesday's hearing. But thanks to a new release of public records, we now know more about wh...
Jul 12, 2023 / Jimmy Tobias
It’s Not “Unreasonable” to Want to Change Our Rotten Health Care System It’s Not “Unreasonable” to Want to Change Our Rotten Health Care System
The pandemic showed how callous, unequal, and ineffective American health care can be—but some medical bigwigs seem to want people to stop pointing that out.
Jun 1, 2023 / Gregg Gonsalves
Covid Has Left Deep Wounds in America’s Rural Communities Covid Has Left Deep Wounds in America’s Rural Communities
The virus tore at the bonds of solidarity in rural areas like Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. Many of the scars have yet to heal.
May 23, 2023 / Anne N. Sosin