$6 billion in PhRMA Network grants flood the non-profit world, muddying the advocacy landscape
An analysis of the $6 billion in grants distributed by PhRMA and its member companies.
Inequalities are shaping how we’re fighting the pandemic — and how we’ll remember it
Covid-19 infections in most countries have been hugely underestimated — not least because rich countries bought almost all the tests.
Making sense of a viral military
A military spouse’s perspective on the Pentagon’s flawed response to the pandemic.
EPA shuts down leaking oil refinery in St. Croix over ‘imminent’ public health threat
“This is a majority-Black island in a U.S. territory. It is located next to public housing. If this refinery were located most anywhere else in the country, it would have been shut down months ago.”
The ultimate stress test
The American world that COVID-19 reveals...
Why We Must Fight the Attack on Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood is under attack. But here is an economic argument for funding family planning and women’s health services. It's critical that all of us step up right now to defend Planned Parenthood.
Lessons from Katrina: This organization tries to get Hurricane Florence survivors home quicker
Many in North Carolina were left homeless by the storm and its still-receding floodwaters. This nonprofit wants to shrink the amount of time it takes to rebuild after a disaster.
Learning to live with COVID – the tough choices ahead
To decide what is acceptable on the suppression strategy, we have to confront the fundamental conflict between values in the COVID trilemma.
AOC: US must mass produce COVID-19 vaccine for world, or pandemic could drag on...
She calls on the United States to use tools like the Defense Production Act to mobilize mass production of vaccines to export for free around the world.
Living near a toxic waste site could lower life expectancy by a year, study...
“The long-term effect of the flooding and repetitive exposure has an effect that can transcend generations.”