Millions of people cannot afford a(nother) COVID infection. Forever waves of COVID means permanent isolation for us

Bill Text (2024-05-16) School employees: COVID-19 cases: protections. [In committee: Held under submission.]

A sudden surge of the virus is a stark reminder of two things: The pandemic isn’t over, and it could be part of the referendum on the Biden presidency.

A sudden surge of the virus is a stark reminder of two things: The pandemic isn’t over, and it could be part of the referendum on the Biden presidency.

A sudden surge of the virus is a stark reminder of two things: The pandemic isn’t over, and it could be part of the referendum on the Biden presidency.

This level of illness is unsustainable. Fortunately, basic measures can drastically reduce viral spread.

Commentators have relied on fallacious allusions to the developing world to explain a problem unique to the United States.

A Texas judge’s ruling that employers don’t have to cover HIV-prevention medication is further proof that the right sees public health policy merely as a tool to punish political enemies.

Immigration agencies won’t suddenly clean up their act when the president leaves office. What’s Biden going to do about their systemic abuses?

Patients suffering from this complex chronic health condition face barrier after barrier seeking care, including ignorance, stigma, and discrimination

The retail health care giant instructed pharmacies to check why customers need medications such as methotrexate—and to refuse to provide them if they can’t prove they’re not for an abortion.

Among the long-haul survivors of the pandemic

A reflection on the ousters of presidents Manuel Zelaya, Fernando Lugo, and Dilma Rousseff—and the emergence of the “parliamentary” or “soft” coup as a new technique to thwart the consolidation of

Unions are figuring out what comes next after taking a public stand against the apartheid State of Israel’s genocide in Gaza

“Instead of society conquering a new content for itself, it only seems that the state has returned to its most ancient form, the unashamedly simple rule of the military sabre and the clerical cowl.”...

Health policies have grown more lax in an attempt to improve school attendance. Parents and teachers are split on whether it’s working.

Confronting the militarized response to protests in the United States requires a reckoning with our foreign policy.

“We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization

California’s health department has relaxed its COVID-19 guidance in ways that could...

Among the long-haul survivors of the pandemic

Roberto Lovato’s “Unforgetting” explores the traumatic history of a country torn apart by wars and gangs—and the dangers of not facing the past.

This article is part of the Retorno project from the Guatemala based nonprofit journalism organization El Intercambio. It was funded by the Seattle International Foundation. LA ESPERANZA, Honduras...

Laura Weiss traverses Todd Miller's "Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World."

Mexico is the latest country to be caught up in the NSA leaks story. It seems the agency had access to president Enrique Peña Nieto’s email account while he was running for office last year. The...

Corporate America’s pledges to make C-suites less white and male don’t mean much for workers. But it keeps coming back to the idea, anyway.

Published in NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 50, No. 4, 2018)