Health Care

My cancer − and the cancerous prison system

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson On July 1, 2022, I was informed by a prison doctor here at Virginia’s Nottoway Correctional…

July 21, 2022

The Turnaway Study — when reproductive freedom is denied

There has already been catastrophic fallout since SCOTUS handed down the Dobbs decision overturning Roe, ending federal guarantee of right…

July 21, 2022

As COVID-19 variant hits, Cuba leads in health and vaccination rates

As the most dangerous COVID-19 variant hits with full force, almost all precautions and mandates in the U.S. have ended…

July 20, 2022

Beyond Biden

Young people who backed Joe Biden in 2020, because they feared or hated Donald Trump, are now fed up with…

July 20, 2022

Extreme weather and mass incarceration deaths

Houston Across the hottest places in the U.S., people in prisons, jails and detention centers often face unbearable and sometimes…

July 20, 2022

In the crosshairs of the abortion battle

Dr. Caitlin Bernard did what any dedicated doctor would do when faced with a medical emergency: Provide care. That is…

July 20, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court attacks tribal sovereignty – again

By Will H., K. James and W. James On June 29, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) continued…

July 18, 2022

Reproductive rights vs. rightwing Federalist Society

Protesters gathered outside the Mellon Bank building in Center City Philadelphia July 13 to denounce the Federalist Society meeting there.…

July 18, 2022

Safe consumption sites: End the war on people who use drugs!

New York City 2020. In the shadow of the COVID-19 epidemic are two others: the opioid and overdose epidemics. Since…

July 18, 2022

Reproductive justice and the U.S. carceral system

The Supreme Court ruling against reproductive rights guaranteed for 50 years in the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision has had…

July 8, 2022