The Ebola Crisis Has Revealed Just How Unequal Our Healthcare System Is The Ebola Crisis Has Revealed Just How Unequal Our Healthcare System Is
The first Ebola patient to die in America was a victim of a biased healthcare system.
Oct 21, 2014 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Shep Smith Slams Fellow Foxers for Fanning Fear of Ebola Shep Smith Slams Fellow Foxers for Fanning Fear of Ebola
Fox needs Shep’s anti-Fox narrative now more than ever.
Oct 16, 2014 / Leslie Savan
How the ‘War on Women’ Is Deepening Racial Inequality How the ‘War on Women’ Is Deepening Racial Inequality
A new report suggests that racial disparities in women’s health are aggravated by states’ refusal to expand Medicaid.
Oct 14, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Brain Cancer Cases Shot Up in This Florida Town—Is a Defense Contractor to Blame? Brain Cancer Cases Shot Up in This Florida Town—Is a Defense Contractor to Blame?
For years, radioactive waste has seeped into swampland, canals—even drinking water. Now a few families are fighting to hold the polluters accountable.
Oct 14, 2014 / Feature / Sharon Lerner
Big Soda Is Outspending Its Opposition 10-to-1 to Fight a Soda Tax in Berkeley Big Soda Is Outspending Its Opposition 10-to-1 to Fight a Soda Tax in Berkeley
Berkeley residents overwhelmingly support the measure, but beverage companies are fighting back.
Oct 14, 2014 / Anna Lappé
How Can You Tell If US Hospitals Are Prepared for Ebola? Ask a Nurse. How Can You Tell If US Hospitals Are Prepared for Ebola? Ask a Nurse.
This is not a time to panic. It is a time to get things right.
Oct 13, 2014 / John Nichols
If Airport Ebola Screening Makes You Feel Safer, You Should Know What Workers Are Saying If Airport Ebola Screening Makes You Feel Safer, You Should Know What Workers Are Saying
Some airport workers have not been trained on handling exposures which could put them at risk of Ebola, hepatitis B and HIV infection.
Oct 12, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Before Ebola, Health Officials Thought the Age of Epidemics Was Over—It Wasn’t Before Ebola, Health Officials Thought the Age of Epidemics Was Over—It Wasn’t
How the WHO’s blindness and Western biases let the Ebola epidemic run wild.
Oct 10, 2014 / Annie Sparrow
Guess Who’s Holding Up Ebola Aid? Guess Who’s Holding Up Ebola Aid?
A Republican Senator criticized Obama’s plan because it “focuses on Africa.”
Oct 9, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Alabama’s New Law Will Let Fetuses Have Lawyers Alabama’s New Law Will Let Fetuses Have Lawyers
Laws requiring teens to tell their parents they’re having an abortion are a problem everywhere they exist, but Alabama’s represents a new low.
Oct 9, 2014 / Dani McClain