The Opioid Crisis Looms Over Michigan’s Senate Race
One of the most important things I’ve learned in my experience with opioid addiction, and later recovery, is the virtue of honesty. Most people in…
Society
Inside Big Beef’s ’90s Campaign to Rewrite Its Climate Story
Documents show how the National Cattlemen’s Association launched a long-term misinformation campaign to downplay livestock’s environmental impacts.
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Yemen: WFP warns of potential ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as fighting blocks aid delivery
Intensifying fighting in Yemen has cut off life-saving assistance to 800,000 people as shifting frontlines, blocked roads and growing insecurity severely restrict access to the…
Colombia: UN independent experts call for Ecopetrol to provide reparations to victims of armed conflict
UN independent experts welcomed on Wednesday a recent landmark corporate accountability ruling involving the Ecopetrol oil company by Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace, calling for reparations…
Johnny Cash, Prison Abolitionist
There’s a popular T-shirt, which you can find in souvenir stores, gas stations, and Walmarts across the United States. It’s typically black, and it has…
Ukraine: Residents killed and dozens injured in attacks on Kharkiv and Kyiv
Russian attacks in recent days on on Ukraine’s two largest cities have again killed and injured civilians, damaged homes and civilian infrastructure, the UN aid…
The Political Afterlives of Ferdinand the Bull
One of the most iconic pacifists in American literature celebrates his 90th birthday this year. The bovine hero of the children’s picture book The Story…
‘Efficiency has limits’: UNHCR chief warns refugee protection is buckling under cuts
The money is running out faster than needs are growing: with 117 million men, women and children now forced from their homes, the UN refugee…
UN aid operation underway in Nepal following fresh floods
The United Nations has rushed to assist Nepal following new flash floods in the central Gorkha district on Sunday that swept away homes and bridges…
Sudan: Drought and war push Darfur and Kordofan towards famine
The risk of famine is growing in parts of Sudan already torn apart by war, as a severe El Niño drought makes life even harder…