The long roots of Trump’s assault on public healthOf all the slash and burn terminations President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are inflicting on public agencies, few will have a more…5d ago5d ago
Trump is still fighting the Civil War — on the wrong sideIt has been 160 years since the last shots were fired in the deadliest war in U.S. history, in which up to 750,000 Americans died in a…Mar 25Mar 25
The sordid ties of U.S. racism and German fascism — and where it leadsVice President J.D. Vance’s embrace of Germany’s neo-Nazi party in a high profile Munich visit this past week sparked outrage and alarm…Feb 17Feb 17
What Trump’s pardons and retribution say about the threat of fascismPresident Trump’s granting of freedom to nearly 1,600 January 6 insurrectionists, followed by other actions fulfilling what the New York…Jan 27Jan 27
What Trump’s Covid malfeasance warns us about the next epidemicsOne barely noticed pledge by Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign in a May Time magazine interview offers an especially ominous warning…Jan 11Jan 11
Elvis, the polio vaccine, and what’s at stake for all of usElvis Presley hardly seems a likely candidate for the pantheon of public health heroes. But in October 1956 the ascending rock idol lent…Jan 1Jan 1
Will Trump follow the typical dictator’s path on information control?When Adolph Hitler was handed the German chancellorship in 1933 after bullying a broken and dying Weimer Republic, he had won just 32…Nov 30, 2024Nov 30, 2024
A postmortum on the legacy of neoliberalism in the 2024 electionAmid the postmortems and reckoning that will now follow the wreckage of Donald Trump’s return to “absolute” power, as authorized by the…Nov 6, 2024Nov 6, 2024
Puerto Rico rally slur recalls Trump’s 2017 Hurricane Maria abandonmentOne day after a warm up speaker at former President Trump’s closing campaign rally in New York Sunday called Puerto Rico a ““floating…Oct 29, 2024Oct 29, 2024
What Harris’ Bid to End Medical Debt Tells Us About Her View of Corporate Price GougingVice President Kamala Harris’ bold proposal to eliminate medical debt offers a window into the approach that informs the entire progressive…Aug 18, 2024Aug 18, 2024
