Health and Disease

Warning: This Supreme Court Is Hazardous to Your Health

Warning: This Supreme Court Is Hazardous to Your Health Warning: This Supreme Court Is Hazardous to Your Health

The past week has effectively supplied us with the data on two natural experiments that reveal just how dangerous this court is.

Jun 30, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

Abortion Protest

What Young People Face Without “Roe” What Young People Face Without “Roe”

With power in the hands of the states after Dobbs v. Jackson, college students are ready to continue the decades-long fight for abortion rights.

Jun 30, 2022 / StudentNation / Sofia Andrade

Frederick Law Olmsted

Can’t Stand All the Political Heat? Escape to the Park. Can’t Stand All the Political Heat? Escape to the Park.

Many cities have Frederick Law Olmsted to thank for these spaces.

Jun 28, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

ultrasound

Abortion Involves Killing–and That’s OK! Abortion Involves Killing–and That’s OK!

To be pro-choice is to be against forced life.

Jun 22, 2022 / Sophie Lewis

Covid NYC

Have We Really Learned Nothing From the Pandemic? Have We Really Learned Nothing From the Pandemic?

I’d like to believe we’ve learned a lesson about our species-wide vulnerability, our planetary connectedness. But in fact, we seem more atomized and arrogant than ever.

Jun 16, 2022 / Nina Burleigh

“Eventually, Does the Whole World Go Away?”

“Eventually, Does the Whole World Go Away?” “Eventually, Does the Whole World Go Away?”

Dispatches from an interconnected planet, as the climate crisis met the Covid pandemic.

Jun 13, 2022 / Emily Raboteau

Remote Learning Classroom

What Online Learning Taught Me What Online Learning Taught Me

As an eighth-grade student in New York City, here’s what attending school during the pandemic was like for me.

Jun 10, 2022 / StudentNation / Marylene Bioh

Monkeypox Is Not a Gay Disease

Monkeypox Is Not a Gay Disease Monkeypox Is Not a Gay Disease

But it has arrived in our community—and our decades of experience dealing with HIV give us the chance to get things right from the outset.

Jun 2, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

Coal mining machine in Belchatow

Here in Poland, “Going Green” Means Burning Even More Coal Here in Poland, “Going Green” Means Burning Even More Coal

With parents and children struggling to breathe, climate activism is a matter of life and death.

May 27, 2022 / Kamila Kadzidłowska

A fossil fuel refinery in Russia.

The War on My Homeland Offers a Real Chance to Save the Planet The War on My Homeland Offers a Real Chance to Save the Planet

How stopping Putin’s fossil-fueled war in Ukraine could accelerate a green transition.

May 26, 2022 / Svitlana Romanko

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