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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.
Gregg Gonsalves
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May 24, 2023
John Fetterman’s Public Battle With Depression Is Shattering Stigma
The Pennsylvania senator’s decisions to temporarily step away from Congress and to discuss his mental health will save lives.
Philip Eil
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May 23, 2023
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.
Anne N. Sosin
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May 22, 2023
The Collapse of This Texas Health Care Program Is Putting Women’s Lives in Danger
For low-income, rural, and uninsured women across the state, the Healthy Texas Women program means access to lifesaving medical care—and it may soon disappear.
Julie Poole
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May 17, 2023
Minnesota Enacts Landmark Protections for Amazon Warehouse Workers
Passed over strenuous opposition from the company, the new law is the fruit of a long campaign by Amazon workers and the local community.
Abdirahman Muse, Emma Greenman and Erin Murphy
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May 11, 2023
Now More Than Ever, We Need to Fight, Not Despair
The never-ending Covid toll, the government’s indifference to this suffering—it’s easy to feel helpless about all of it. But we have to keep resisting.
Gregg Gonsalves
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May 4, 2023
What the Country Refused to Learn From the Pandemic
However briefly, the pandemic showed us that such an American world is not only possible but right at our fingertips.
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
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May 4, 2023
The Future of Global Health Has Rarely Looked Grimmer
It’s not just about how much our leaders get wrong when it comes to public health. It’s that the things they got right are in danger of slipping away.
Gregg Gonsalves
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April 24, 2023
The Lasting Devastation of Global Atomic War
The decision to send depleted-uranium shells to Ukraine will have a debilitating, radioactive impact that will linger in the country for years to come.
Joshua Frank
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April 21, 2023
We’re Still Getting Our Pandemic Preparation Horribly Wrong
Until we focus on the combustible social conditions that made Covid so devastating, we’ll never be truly ready for the next pandemic.
Martha Lincoln and Anne N. Sosin