Health & Wellness

Here and There, Organic Farming Still Thrives in Heart of U.S. Corn Country

WEST BEND, Iowa — People searching for ways to limit the toll industrialized American agriculture takes on communities, land and water may want to visit Clear Creek Acres in...

‘War on Cartels’ and Harm Reduction in Peril

President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed and could soon have the authority to make that...

“War on Cartels” and Harm Reduction in Peril

President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed, and could soon have the authority to make that...

Study: End World Bank Support for Factory Farming

Animal agriculture is one of the leading drivers of the climate crisis. According to a recent World Bank report,...

Six Pivotal Health Issues at Stake in This Election

In the final days of the campaign, stark disagreements between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald...

Walz, Meat and Masculinity, Maybe Not-So-Redefined

This story was originally published by Sentient Media. In Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, many people see a new, refreshing form of masculinity — one premised not...

Mpox Offers Another Chance to Confront Vaccine Inequity

On Aug. 14, the World Health Organization named mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years. When the first declaration was issued in 2022,...

Ban Assault Weapons To End School Shootings

School shootings are recurring markers of a societal sickness, an unshakeable acceptance of violence and senseless death. The murder of two 14-year-old students and...

NYC Continues To Add to Its Little-Known Mass Grave Site

The New York City Human Resources Administration has increased the number of bodies in each of the city’s mass graves on Hart Island in...

How Opioids Corrupted Organized Medicine

Editor’s note: The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days.Many businesses will gleefully sell you a harmful addiction.The tobacco industry...