Pandemic or not, UMD needs to respect its workers
Many staff members put themselves at risk by reporting to work in person during the past academic year. The university should acknowledge that.
Can the College Park community save Cornerstone?
Cornerstone’s GoFundMe can teach us about mutual aid.
With the Affordable Care Act in jeopardy, some UMD students worry they may lose coverage
Under Obamacare, an estimated 2 million young people gained coverage.
COVID-19 has exposed damaging racial health disparities statewide, UMD professors say
The disparity is due to a variety of factors, including higher rates of poverty and lack of access to nutrition, one professor said.
Nursing home residents are often isolated and forgotten by the public. They shouldn’t be.
Nursing homes need to be more closely monitored to ensure uniform, high standards of care.
America’s policy gaps set us up to fail in the wake of coronavirus
Systems of inequity make certain populations more vulnerable to coronavirus.
Medicare For All Who Want It will keep union workers fighting for healthcare
Buttigieg’s healthcare plan isn't about worker choice but employer power.
Twitter’s political ads ban is the wrong way to go after misinformation online
Banning all political ads on Twitter won't solve social media's shortcomings.
Healthcare in the U.S. is inefficient because of wasteful spending
Wasteful spending is driving an unnecessarily expensive healthcare system.
Hundreds wait in sprawling lines at UMD for free dental care clinic
Some pitched tents to wait Thursday night, through the rain, to be treated on Friday.