At present local health departments and the CDC have only about 2,200 professional “disease detectives,” although other health staff often assist during…

Over the course of U.S. history, farmworkers, although essential, have been terribly mistreated

For the next six months, getting rid of Trump and as many of his overt supporters as possible is job number one, far and away

With almost 2.3 million people behind bars, the U.S. continues to have the highest number of prisoners in the world, a legacy of several decades of racially propelled policies of harsh sentencing and rapid prison building

The first institutional change would have to be in our criminal justice system and our underlying theory about the maintenance of social order. Disarm policing. Rethink justice

Photo by Never Settle Media/Shutterstock.com During the weeks since Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign, many fervent supporters have entered a “WTF?” space.…

Just keeping to the current COVID-19 crisis, it is remarkable to see how little attention has been given to his sadistic assault against poor and suffering people around the world in pursuit of his goal of enhancing his electoral prospects

Like his predecessors from Truman to Obama, Trump has been caught in the trap of America’s blind, deluded militarism

Social order requires complex understanding of the human condition, far, far more than it requires a tough-guy swagger, handcuffs and a gun

With a media in place that truly holds politicians to account and celebrates scientists for their contributions to collective knowledge, not their usefulness to corporate enrichment—we would not need to worry about the safety of our communications systems or medicines