Health

It took three days for the mainstream media to report any version of events surrounding Michael Brown's killing other than the police's.

Medical ethicist Harriet Washington explains why most pharmaceuticals companies decline to produce drugs for the developing world yet use it for clinical testing.

Medical ethicist Harriet Washington says that the media-driven narrative of African fear ignores the untrustworthiness of the health care system.

Kabul-based journalist Matthieu Aikins talks about the disputed Afghan election, US-backed militias committing war crimes, and the future of the country after the US military drawdown.

Thirty years later, there's nothing more than clouds of toxic justice.

Seven decades after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the United States has long-term plans to modernize its nuclear weapons at a cost of hundreds of …

After facing lawsuits from environmental groups, the US Fish and Wildlife Service will phase out the use of GMOs and controversial neonicotinoid pesticides at farming projects on national wildlife …

While Obamacare expands Medicaid, various states are also privatizing it, increasing the costs and decreasing the benefits to the poor under the ideological cover of teaching them how to …

As climate change makes it more difficult to practice agriculture in their ancestral homelands, indigenous communities are exchanging seeds in hopes of finding the hardiest varieties.

The Overdose Prevention Act supports the expansion of community-based overdose prevention programs.