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USAID Is Running Out of Money for COVID Vaccines While Pentagon Got $778 Billion
The Pentagon will receive $25 billion more than requested — and more than enough to vaccinate everyone in the world.
World’s Most Destructive Climate Disasters of 2021 Cost Nearly $200 Billion
The author of a report on climate costs says dollar signs alone cannot calculate the losses caused by extreme weather.
Parents With Disabilities Face Medicare Rules That Exclude Parental Assistance
Help with parenting, according to state and federal law, is not covered under current Medicare rules.
Thousands of Virginians Have Faced Years of Sickness-Inducing Landfill Pollution
Residents of Bristol, Virginia, are reporting intense symptoms due to a city-owned landfill's noxious and toxic fumes.
The Climate Won’t Survive Our Current Appetite for Consumerism and Consumption
We must dismantle the military-industrial complex and rein in consumerism before we destroy life as we know it.
Two Years of COVID Have Forced Us to Recalibrate Our Concept of Hope
Hope, now, is for me an exercise to see if I still have it in me to hope, despite all the reasons not to.
Activists Are Using the “Climate Necessity Defense” in Court — and Winning
An upcoming court appeal is attempting to challenge the branding of Water and Land Protectors as eco-terrorists.
Oxfam Takes On Moderna in Fight for Vaccine Equity
We'll continue to face new, potentially more dangerous variants if major parts of the world remain largely unvaccinated.
As Patients Caught COVID Inside Hospitals, Government Oversight Fell Short
Gaps in government oversight have kept hospitals from being held accountable as points of high COVID spread.
First US Omicron Death Was Reinfection, Debunking GOP’s “Natural Immunity” Claim
Reinfection rates are 5.4 times higher under Omicron than they were under the Delta variant, one study shows.