Gene-guided healthcare has taken U.S. medicine by storm, promising precision, targeted treatments to myriad illnesses. It has also proved very profitable. James Tabery traces how genetic medicine vied within the federal government with another approach to healthcare — one emphasizing the social and environmental determinants of health, such as whether you live in a polluted … Continued


Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast)

Democracy Now 9am – August 22, 2023

On Today’s Show: “Notorious”: Inside the Fulton County Jail, Where Trump Will Surrender & 15 Prisoners Died Last Year Meet George Chidi, the Journalist Subpoenaed for Uncovering Secret Meeting of Fake Trump Electors Vijay Prashad on BRICS & Why Global South Cooperation Is Key to Dismantling Unjust World Order In Major Win for Indigenous Rights, Ecuador Votes … Continued


Law & Disorder

Family Ties and Child Removal in America; Plus, Resistance in Residence Artist Sarah Crowell

On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and multiple children at the bottom of a cliff along the California coastline. The crash was a murder-suicide: a white lesbian couple had adopted six Black children, with a paper-trail of child abuse and neglect that had been ignored … Continued


UpFront

California floods (in August!); Ecuador bans drilling in the Yasuni; Federal raids on Antioch police

0:08 – Eugene Cordero, professor meteorology and climate science at San Jose State University; also founder of the educational publisher Green Ninja 0:17 – Mark Becker, professor of history at Truman State University, author most recently of Contemporary Latin American Revolutions 0:33 – Nate Gartrell, reporter for the Bay Area News Group covering crime and corruption in Contra … Continued


Democracy Now!

Democracy Now 6am – August 22, 2023

On Today’s Show: “Notorious”: Inside the Fulton County Jail, Where Trump Will Surrender & 15 Prisoners Died Last Year Meet George Chidi, the Journalist Subpoenaed for Uncovering Secret Meeting of Fake Trump Electors Vijay Prashad on BRICS & Why Global South Cooperation Is Key to Dismantling Unjust World Order In Major Win for Indigenous Rights, Ecuador Votes … Continued