Mutual Aid Networks That Emerged in Housing Crisis Are Mobilizing Amid LA Fires By Schuyler Mitchell , Truthout January 16, 2025 I’ve always said that Los Angeles is a mirror: Whatever you’re seeking, you’ll find it reflected back to you. Sure, the city has its ugly parts — celebrity worship and diet fads and […]
Big Agriculture Is Leading Us Into the Bird Flu Abyss By Schuyler Mitchell , Truthout January 6, 2025 We might have just rung in a new year, but it feels like an epidemiological Groundhog Day. Nearly five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, public health experts are once again sounding the alarm.
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When a medical insurance CEO was shot dead, people celebrated his death. What does this tell us about American healthcare? By Richard Hall December 6, 2024 When the CEO of one of the largest medical insurance companies in the United States was gunned down on the street in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, his death
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to reverse plan to cap anesthesia coverage in three states By Mary Kekatosm ABCNews December 5, 2024 Insurance company Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said it will reverse a policy that would have resulted in coverage for anesthesia services being potentially capped in Connecticut, Missouri and New York.
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths By Amy Yurkanin November 21, 2024 Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports detailing two deaths.
Why Project 2025 Is So Bad for Veterans By Mark Foreman October 02, 2024 In 1968, when I was 20 years old, I volunteered to serve with the Marines in Vietnam. I was trained to be a Navy Corpsman (medic) and attached to the Marines. I was only there five weeks before being seriously
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November 11 Is Armistice Day: Veterans Demand Ceasefire in Gaza By Gerry Condon November 11, 2024 November 11, declared Armistice Day at the end of World War I, is celebrated in the U.S. as Veterans Day. Understanding why requires us to recall World War I and its aftermath. World War I was an
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How California Got Convinced to Lock More People Up By Jonah Valdez November 9 2024 California voters chose harsher sentencing, the continuation of forced labor in prisons, and tough-on-crime prosecutors this week in overwhelming numbers. Proposition 36, a bill that upgrades a raft of petty theft and drug crimes from misdemeanors to felonies,
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Will there be a future for newborns in Gaza? By Bilal Irfana, Abdallah Abu Shammalae, Khaled Salehd October 23, 2024 The ongoing Israeli military assault on Gaza has led to an alarming humanitarian catastrophe, whereby the onset of famine is coupled with a deterioration of maternal health services, severely impacting the wellbeing of pregnant
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Infant mortality got worse after Roe reversal. Experts are investigating. By Ariana Eunjung Cha October 23, 2024 Hundreds more babies died than expected in the year and a half after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022, raising questions about the ripple effects of the ruling on maternal and
