A Maryland-based government contractor, Emergent BioSolutions, recently ruined 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine during production as well as vaccines it was producing for AstraZeneca, ruining the opportunity for millions to receive the...
Andreas Malm’s recent book Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency lays out the overlapping causes of both the global coronavirus crisis and impending ecological collapse. He intertwines these problems as stemming from the inherent nature of capitalism – a profit-driven...
The recognition of Earth Day in the U.S. began 51 years ago as people understood that we couldn’t continue to treat our home – planet Earth – in such a disrespectful way. For many of the 20 million people in the U.S. who demonstrated on that day, the choice seemed...
As North Americans and Europeans get vaccinated against COVID-19 in ever growing numbers, the stunning inequality in the global distribution of the vaccine is becoming clearer. While the U.S., Europe, Israel, and a handful of other wealthy nations have at least...
On Wednesday, March 31, Biden began to release the details of his American Jobs Plan (AJP), his latest stimulus bill designed to lift the economy from the COVID-19 recession. Much like the already passed 1.9 trillion-dollar American Rescue Plan, the AJP has received a...
