Health and Disease

A power plant in Colstrip, Montana.

Trump Promised to Bring Back Coal. This Town Listened. Trump Promised to Bring Back Coal. This Town Listened.

Through executive orders, Congress, and a loyalist cabinet, the Trump administration has delivered big for enclaves of coal country like Colstrip, Montana. But how long can it las...

Nov 20, 2025 / StudentNation / Ezra Graham

Cleveland Browns player Carl Nassib enters the bue tent during an NFL football game against the New York Jets, in Cleveland.

Sports Media Has Forgotten About CTE Even After Player Deaths Sports Media Has Forgotten About CTE Even After Player Deaths

The NFL season has been rife with tragedy—not that the league or its media partners have noticed.

Nov 18, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Elderly hands

Aging in Trump’s America Is an Obstacle Course of Indignities Aging in Trump’s America Is an Obstacle Course of Indignities

As strand by strand of the safety net is plucked away until it’s shredded, aging in America is a fearful and destructive business. And Donald Trump doesn’t care.

Nov 13, 2025 / Beverly Gologorsky

Participants demonstrate against US President Donald Trump’s administration, including against ICE, entrepreneur Elon Musk, and US Health Secretary Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. outside the US embassy as they attend the global “No Kings” protest in front of the Brandenburg Gate on October 18, 2025, in Berlin, Germany.

Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again. Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.

It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.

Nov 6, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

John Roberts speaks to the Georgetown Law School graduating class of 2025, in Washington, DC,May 12, 2025.

John Roberts Is a Threat to the Health of Every American John Roberts Is a Threat to the Health of Every American

The Supreme Court chief is complicit in the destruction of the federal government’s public health infrastructure.

Oct 30, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

Donald Trump standing alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Destroy the Metrics, Destroy the Truth Destroy the Metrics, Destroy the Truth

Trump’s decimation of public health systems isn’t about efficiency, cost-saving, or even ideology. It’s about building a world without truth or the possibility of accountability.

Oct 27, 2025 / Eric Reinhart

A demonstrator waits in her car before a rolling protest caravan departs for the west gate of San Quentin State Prison to demand more protection for prisoners against the coronavirus and Covid-19 in Larkspur, California, on May 9, 2020.

We’ve Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons We’ve Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons

Covid is spreading, but incarcerated people are being told vaccines aren’t necessary.

Oct 24, 2025 / Victoria Law

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. stands behind Donald Trump in the Oval Office

We Have No One to Blame for Public Health Disasters but Ourselves We Have No One to Blame for Public Health Disasters but Ourselves

Isn’t it time, in the era of Trump and RFK Jr., to focus on a social structure in which corporations and institutions make decisions that profoundly affect people’s health?

Oct 23, 2025 / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner

RFK Jr. Dismantles Our Health System

RFK Jr. Dismantles Our Health System RFK Jr. Dismantles Our Health System

Spreading lies and spreading disease.

Oct 10, 2025 / OppArt / 3 Chord Politics

Fat Elvis Flies Again

Fat Elvis Flies Again Fat Elvis Flies Again

And Lincoln too.

Oct 3, 2025 / Steve Brodner

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