A conversation with Terry O’Sullivan, an expert in the dynamics of catastrophic disease outbreaks, on the high human cost of cutbacks to public-health funding.
Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland is a Nation Institute writing fellow and the host of Politics and Reality Radio. Follow him on Twitter.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Naomi Klein: Pitting Environment Against Economy Risks Failure of Both
The solutions to climate change, she writes in a new book, are not those that consolidate wealth.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
What’s Missing in the American Media: Working People
So far this year not a single representative of a labor union has appeared on any of the four Sunday network talk shows, according to a new report. And entertainment TV has abandoned the working class.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Will Electioneering From the Pulpit Be the Next Big Battle Over ‘Religious Liberty’?
Most at stake isn’t the freedom to worship or speak out, but eligibility for tax subsidies that are estimated to cost the government over $80 billion in revenues every year.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
There Is No Border Crisis: There Are Frightened Children, Fleeing Death
America’s response to child refugees from Central America is downright shameful.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Minimum Wage For Tipped Workers Hasn’t Increased Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows the ravages of an artificially depressed wage on food servers and other workers.