Health

The new book, “Foodopoly”, details how a handful of large corporations control the nation's food production in ways that limit how small farms operate and how ordinary people make …

Laura Flanders talks to attorney Lynn Paltrow, the executive director of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women.

A study just published in Science, the most comprehensive “Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years” ever done, shows that recent warming has been "amazing …

Class action attorney Dimitri Lascaris: New director of SEC was a Wall St. defense attorney who will now regulate former clients.

North Dakota's thriving state bank makes a mockery of Wall Street's casino banking system — and that's why financial elites want to crush it.

Today, New York State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried and Senator Diane Savino introduced a bill that would create one of the nation's most tightly regulated medical marijuana programs. If passed, …

100 years after the Triangle fire, we still hear the same rhetoric whenever reformers seek to use government to businesses act more responsibly.

BPA is only one of dozens of estrogen-mimicking chemicals in the American food supply. Mix up a few of them through a lifetime and you may end up with …

If you live in a state with a Republican governor tell him to stop playing politics with healthcare for poor and working class people.

On March 1, Congress failed to avert the sequestration cliff. Drastic cuts to health care, infrastructure, environmental protection, education are occurring. Why? An examination of the cause of this …