There is no shortage of critiques of the suburbs. The most popular suburban critiques typically are cultural and revolve around disgust with Eisenhower era superficiality and antipathy towards white flight. There have even been some recent environmental additions to criticizing the suburban lifestyle with its long daily work commutes burning massive amounts of fossil fuel [...]

So let’s say you are a leading multinational pharmaceutical company and you have a blockbuster cancer drug. You patent the drug, make tremendous profits, but now the clock is ticking and the patent is set to expire. What do you do? If you are Novartis and your blockbuster cancer drug is Gleevec you are going [...]

Eleven years after the attacks on 9-11 and the subsequent Ground Zero volunteer cleanup that left thousands sickened, the federal government finally added cancer to the list of illnesses linked to the attacks. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health approved the additions to the list of illnesses covered in the James Zadroga 9/11 [...]

A provocative new video from Brave New Films exposes what appear to be serious environmental crimes in Crossett, Arkansas, caused by waste product at a Georgia-Pacific plant. Georgia-Pacific is owned by Koch Industries. In the video, the citizens of Penn Road, a residential neighborhood behind a channel into which the Georgia-Pacific plywood, paper mill, and [...]

Ending one of the shorter political careers in recent memory, Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat in a swing seat, will not seek re-election, possibly because of a recurrence of the cancer that almost took his life several years ago. As I reported last month, Massa was diagnosed with terminal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and was given [...]

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), one of the oldest lawmakers in the Senate, has been diagnosed with lymphoma of the stomach, his office confirms. Lautenberg was hospitalized after suffering a fall last week, and tests revealed the tumor. This is the statement from his office: After several days of hospitalization and testing, Senator Lautenberg’s doctors have [...]