Living near active oil and gas wells in California tied to low birth weight and smaller babies
By Rachel Morello-Frosch, Joan A. Casey, Kathy Tran, Lara Cushing The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic
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A greener economy: how we make sustainability central to business
By Sarah Birrell Ivory & Brad McKay The coronavirus pandemic could change the world in ways that were unimaginable only
Read moreNo justice, no peace: Why Catholic priests are kneeling with George Floyd protesters
By Anna L. Peterson Two days after the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Mark Seitz, knelt with a dozen other
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COVID-19 will turn the state pension problem into a fiscal crisis
By Raymond Scheppach You may be wondering why, over the last few months, the state pension problem – normally not
Read moreWhy soldiers might disobey the president’s orders to occupy US cities
By Marcus Hedahl & Bradley Jay Strawser President Donald Trump has announced he was considering sending the federal military into the
Read moreWhat – or who – is antifa?
By Stanislav Vysotsky The movement called “antifa” gets its name from a short form of “anti-fascist,” which is about the
Read moreThe fury in US cities is rooted in a long history of racist policing, violence and inequality
By Clare Corbould The protests that have engulfed American cities in the past week are rooted in decades of frustrations.
Read moreThe ‘greatest pandemic in history’ was 100 years ago – but many of us still get the basic facts wrong
By Richard Gunderman This year marks the 100th anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. Between 50 and 100
Read moreSpotlighting Need for Response ‘At the Scale of This Catastrophe,’ US Unemployment Claims Hit 26.5 Million
by Jessica Corbett The federal government announced Thursday that roughly 26.5 million people nationwide have filed jobless claims since mid-March—a
Read more“Please Don’t”: Doctors Forced to Speak Out as Trump Ponders Aloud Whether Injecting Disinfectants Could Treat Covid-19
“ALERT! Please do not ingest, inject, inhale, or otherwise use any disinfectant outside of its labeled instructions. And do not start using tanning beds or sunning without sunscreen.”
by Jake Johnson
