The Costs of a Car-Centric Life
By Claudia Ward–de León I live in rural New England, a place where driving a car is my only option if I need to get to a doctor, a specialty store like a hardware or…
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Keeping Air in Connecticut Classrooms Safe
By Lauren Woods Several years of community service and real-world research of the cross-campus UConn Indoor Air Quality Initiative has led to the awarding of $11.5 million in state support to UConn to bring access…
If Parents Don’t Fight to Protect Children from
Covid In Schools, Nobody Else Will By Tess Finch-Lees “It’s not your fault,” I told 16-year-old Cara, whose mother died of a SARS-CoV-2 infection she gave her. To be clear, the doctor confirmed Cara (not…
The Mpox Global Health Emergency
A Time for Solidarity and Equity By Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D., Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., and Alexandra Finch, L.L.M. On August 14, 2024, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox in…
Seattle Clean Air Collective Making Shows and
Spaces COVID-Safer By Vivian McCall In the summer of 2022, a COVID-19 infection sent William White to the hospital. The drummer for the indie rock band Glass Beach, a proggy, emo-ish four-piece that has amassed…
When School Lunch Is Free
By Susan Shain Kurt Marthaller, who oversees school food programs in Butte, Montana, faces many cafeteria-related challenges: children skipping the lunch line because they fear being judged, parents fuming about surprise bills they can’t afford,…
A Warming Planet, Pathogens, and Diseases
By Zoya Teirstein People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago. Climate change threatens to undo that progress. Across the planet, animals—and the diseases they carry…
Capitalism Is Bad For Your Mental Health
By Belén Fernández When I was in high school in Texas in the late 1990s, running myself ragged with academic and extracurricular activities, I began suffering from acute panic attacks. The first round lasted for…
The Next Pandemic
It’s already here for Earth’s wildlife By Diana Bell I am a conservation biologist who studies emerging infectious diseases. When people ask me what I think the next pandemic will be I often say that…
The US Is No Country for Old Men
Commentary by Belén Fernández Shortly prior to his death from prostate cancer in August of this year at the age of 72, my father emerged from a state of muteness to recite, with a burst…