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Is the US Public Ready for Single-Payer National Health Insurance?
Health care reform has become a top-down issue — corporate profits and oligarchy vs. democracy and the public interest.
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Ten Things You Need to Know About the New US Chemicals Law
The updated Toxic Substances Control Act brings new hope for protecting Americans' health and environment. Here's what you need to know.
Judge Denies Hepatitis C Cure for Mumia Abu-Jamal, but Finds Lack of Care in Prison Unconstitutional
A federal judge has denied a request from the former Black Panther and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal for life-saving medication that could cure his hepatitis C.
Why Utilities Have Little Incentive to Plug Leaking Natural Gas
The problem of methane leakage is hardly news to environmentalists and regulators, who have been following it for years.
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The ADHD Epidemic: Smart Drugs and the Control of Bodies and Minds
What is taken for granted in corporate media coverage is a system of test-oriented high stakes educational competition that filters into capitalist competition.
Black Women Do Breastfeed, Despite Intense Systemic Barriers in the US
Targeted and systemic support for Black mothers is needed to overcome the racial gap in breastfeeding rates in the US.
How the International Olympic Committee Effectively Maintains a Gag Order on Non-Sponsors of the Olympics
The vast majority of businesses are blocked from nearly any mention of the 2016 Olympic Games.
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Gaza’s Sick Pay Price of Blockade
Gaza has had chronic shortages of medicines as a result of political division between the West Bank and Gaza, as well as Israel's siege.
Yes, There Is a Way Forward in Reining in Fracking
Public interest advocate Wenonah Hauter lays out strategies to stop fracking and rein in Big Oil and Gas.
Rethinking Recovery: Poverty Chains and Global Capitalism
The World Bank's poverty lines are uni-dimensional: they are only concerned with the costs of consumption.