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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson funded experiments on incarcerated people, which intentionally exposed them to asbestos, according to March 2022 reporting by The……
Gone are the days when libraries lent out books and little else. Imagine going into a library that, in addition to books, also offers power tools, kitchen appliances, camping gear,……
According to international research by TerraChoice, a Canadian-based environmental marketing agency, 98 percent of North American big-box retail brands are guilty of greenwashing, a practice in which a company promotes…
The ocean is now becoming an integral part of an unprecedented global network of “smart” fifth-generation (5G) wireless infrastructure, according to a December 2021 report by Patricia Burke and Kate……
It is an open secret that the world’s most popular social media apps and websites collect users’ data in order to tailor advertisements to those users. The worst offenders however……
In the United States alone, over 167,000 children grieved the loss of at least one parent or caregiver during the pandemic. The term ‘COVID orphans’ was first used by Harvard……
According to a joint study conducted by School House Connection and the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions initiative, approximately 420,000 fewer children and youth experiencing homelessness were identified and enrolled……
Last introduced in 2020, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2022 (EARN IT Act) is back and more threatening to online freedom of expression than……
In 2016, Gideon Sa’ar introduced a bill to the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) that would have expanded the government’s authority to censor online content; the Israeli prime minister, Sa’ar’s political rival,……
In recent years, clothing for children with disabilities, known as “adaptive wear,” has slowly become more commonplace in the fashion industry, providing parents of these children with options that can……
In May 2021, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved a draft treaty that would give law enforcement officials broad, intrusive powers to access user information while……
Hundreds of low-income residents of Lowndes County, a rural, majority-Black county in Alabama, have lived for years with failing septic tanks, Connor Sheets reported for AL.com news in July 2021.……
In January 2022, peaceful protesters gathered publicly in Brussels, Belgium and Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against COVID countermeasures, including lockdowns, vaccine passports, and vaccine mandates. As a variety of European-based……
As the United States and the world confront the consequences of human-caused climate change, advocates of solar engineering, including tech billionaire Bill Gates, seek to influence climate policy. To cool……
Several recent independent news reports highlight a health-oriented approach to COVID-19 that is missing from most news coverage on the pandemic. These reports highlight how healthy diet and lifestyle can……
The Maryland Gender-Responsive Prerelease Act, which mandates the development of a prerelease facility for incarcerated women, was initially vetoed by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan in May 2020. That veto was……
In February 2022, Bianca Fortis of ProPublica made multiple attempts to speak with White House officials about the Biden administration’s Pandemic Testing Board, which was developed shortly after President Biden’s……
In a March 2022 Atlantic article, Stephanie Murray discussed how mask mandates have impacted children with speech or language disorders. When the pandemic began in March 2020, many speech pathologists……
A federal appeals court ruled in April 2021 that the pesticide chlorpyrifos will be banned from all forms of use unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove it’s safe.……
After Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 25, 2022, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called for civilian men to stay and fight against the Russians (Ukraine’s women were advised to flee……
For young adults, street harassment is an ongoing obstacle that some face every day, American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Rebecca Sandoval reported in January 2022. Sandoval’s report focused on a……
In a March 2022 article for Truthout, Igor Derysh reported that conservative dark money organizations opposing President Biden’s Supreme Court nomination also helped fuel conspiracy theories of election fraud after……
The pandemic has compounded a host of systemic issues in the United States, including food insecurity in Indian Country. In an interview for High Country News, B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster spoke……
When Russian forces escalated attacks in Ukraine in February, social media users were forced to sift through mounting misinformation. But a new TikTok phenomenon is preying on Sweden’s most vulnerable.……