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Healing Through Words: How Creative Writing Empowers Caregivers
More than just a creative outlet, writing offers caregivers a powerful, cost-effective way to reduce stress, process emotions, and...

The Left Chapter
Jun 2016 min read


Factory Farms and the Next Pandemic: How Industrial Animal Agriculture Fuels Global Health Threats
Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative. By Alex Crisp...

The Left Chapter
Jun 125 min read


Communist-Led Kerala Is Eradicating Extreme Poverty
A Communist flag flies in Kerala -- Praveenp, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Atul Chandra In a region too often consumed by the...

The Left Chapter
May 267 min read


Why the US Right Really Hates the Postal Service
It’s not about USPS’s efficiency or viability. It’s about equity and collective good, values that are anathema to predatory capitalism....

The Left Chapter
May 145 min read


Sanctions as Civilizational Warfare: The Human Cost of U.S. Economic Pressure
By Peiman Salehi Economic sanctions are often described as ‘peaceful’ alternatives to war. Yet for millions in countries like Iran and...

The Left Chapter
May 83 min read


The 5th International Convention Cuba Salud 2025 concludes in Havana
Images via the PCC By Dayán González Ramírez, translated from the Spanish Cuba Salud 2025 was an essential meeting in the search for...

The Left Chapter
Apr 262 min read


The First Cuban "One Health" Congress concludes successfully
Images via the PCC By Isabel Díaz González, translated from the Spanish The First Cuban "One Health" Congress held within the context of...

The Left Chapter
Apr 253 min read


Participatory Budgeting Includes Community Members in the Public Funding Process
As governmental authoritarianism intensifies, citizens “double down on democracy” through the participatory model. Participatory budget...
Michael Laxer
Mar 134 min read


US health insurers profit from suffering, not care
The country’s largest insurer just posted record revenues. That money comes from denying care and gouging patients — who are now sharing...
Michael Laxer
Jan 303 min read


Abolish Climate Disasters
We need to apply an abolitionist framework to climate change, pouring money into a safe and resilient climate and out of the oil-based...
Michael Laxer
Jan 236 min read


Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
We know from history that there are many ways we can live together—let’s explore the idea. Aerroscape & Lino Zeddies, CC BY-SA 4.0 By...
Michael Laxer
Nov 23, 20246 min read


Home Improvement
The North Missoula Community Development Corporation brings permanent affordable housing to Montana. Image via the North Missoula...
Michael Laxer
Aug 17, 20246 min read


The Role of Ancient DNA in Modern Traits
Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar...
Michael Laxer
Aug 5, 20246 min read


Trade Union Report Illustrates Mental Health Impacts of Working in Public Healthcare
By Global News Service Public Services International recently launched a report examining the mental health of health workers in Liberia,...
Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 20241 min read


The Real Reason Your Grocery Bill Is Still So High
It’s time to turn the tables on our food system by centering justice over profits. By Sonali Kolhatkar Americans have had to weather much...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20245 min read


How the Food Industry Uses Big Tobacco’s Playbook
The strategy used by Big Tobacco in the US is called state or “ceiling” preemption: promoting weaker state public health laws to override...
Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20246 min read


POOR Magazine Started With a Mother and Daughter Experiencing Homelessness and Grew Into a Movement
A mother and daughter in and out of homelessness founded a grassroots magazine in 1996, by and for people experiencing poverty. It grew...
Michael Laxer
Oct 28, 202320 min read


Why Is Kaiser Permanente Engaging in Corporate Kabuki?
Ahead of a potentially historic strike, a major nonprofit health care provider seems to be choosing corporate values over worker...
Michael Laxer
Sep 16, 20235 min read
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