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The face of the other in Gaza
Nothing prepared me for Gaza.
As a US physician trained in emergency medicine, I’ve spent decades in trauma bays across the United States, watching lives come undone. I’ve worked in…
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Health insurance giants raked in more than $71 billion last year
The seven largest publicly traded U.S. health insurance companies made a collective $71.3 billion in profits last year, and their CEOs took home a total of $146.1 million in…
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Remembering the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Before dawn on August 6, 1945, Tsuyako Kubota gave birth to her second daughter at her home in Hiroshima’s Nishikanon neighborhood. A few hours later, in a blinding flash, much of the…
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Trump’s mental sharpness being questioned
For years, Donald Trump has projected an image of supreme confidence—boasting about his intelligence, touting his memory, and mocking political opponents as feeble-minded or senile. But…
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Mexico raises the flag for health sovereignty
By Outra Saude / Peoples Dispatch
The first week of July could go down in history as a milestone in Mexico’s pursuit of health sovereignty. At a press conference held on Friday, July…
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Inflation ticks up as Trump tariffs push prices higher
Inflation figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics offered what economists described as early evidence that President Donald Trump's erratic tariff policies are…
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Mandy Patinkin on Gaza: “Unconscionable and unthinkable”
The actor Mandy Patinkin and his wife, playwright and actor Kathryn Grody, address the policies of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and reflect on what it means to be Jewish…
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Alligator Alcatraz ‘an internment camp’
For the first time, Democratic lawmakers were allowed to tour U.S. President Donald Trump's sprawling Everglades immigrant detention center on Saturday. They said what they witnessed…
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ALBA denounces sanctions on Cuban president
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) strongly condemned the latest U.S. sanctions imposed on senior Cuban officials, calling them "infamous" and politically…
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Brazilians rally around Lula after Trump tariff threat
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may have gotten a political boost thanks to the intervention of U.S. President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, Trump announced he was slapping…
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