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Depression Confession (Presidential Election 2000, Gender Issues, Mental Health, Politics, Society)

How will we know when women have achieved equality? Male politicians will all be bachelors.

Katha Pollitt
Morning-After Pill Ban (Health and Disease, Reproductive Rights, Society)

Emergency contraception has the potential to revolutionize women's relationship to sex and birth control.

Patricia Miller
More Beds, More Money (Healthcare Policy)

Beverly Enterprises controls more than 60,000 nursing-home beds, more than any other company worldwide.

Eric Bates
The Shame of our Nursing Homes (Healthcare Policy)

Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

Eric Bates
Nonsilence = Death, Too? (Social Justice, HIV and AIDS, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Organizing, Sex and Sexuality, Theater, Society)

In seven novels and a collection of essays published since 1981, Sarah Schulman has methodically chronicled the history of her longtime neighborhood, Manhattan's East Village.

Mark J. Huisman
Hawaii Wakes Up To Pesticides (Biotechnology, Health, Environment)

The US Department of Agriculture plans to eradicate three species of fruit fly in Hawaii by spraying suspected carcinogens and mutagens on the islands.

W.S. Merwin

Blogs

A Pill for Equal Abortion Access
Chloe Angyal

The US can learn a lot from Australia’s new medical abortion policy.

April 26, 2013
Crowdsourcing as Healthcare Policy: Can't We Do Better?
Michelle Dean

GoFundMe donations are a good Band-Aid for a bad system, but can’t we harness America’s generosity in service of better social programs?

April 26, 2013
Fat-Shaming All Around Us
Chloe Angyal

There’s nothing healthy about shaming people for their bodies.

April 25, 2013
The 'Thinspiration' Behind an Impossible Ideal of Beauty
Chloe Angyal

Rooting out "thinspiration" in social media is a start, but we must not turn "thinspo" into a scapegoat.

April 23, 2013
Ending Prostitution 'Central' to Ending AIDS, US Tells Supreme Court
Melissa Gira Grant

Will Justices agree that requiring HIV service providers to oppose prostitution is necessary for ending AIDS?

April 22, 2013
The Lack of Paid Sick Leave Is Unhealthy for America
Katrina vanden Heuvel

Being able to stay home sick keeps workers and children healthy and businesses profitable.

April 3, 2013
Bipartisan Push to Scrap Medical Device Tax Is a Cautionary Tale
George Zornick

A bipartisan vote to repeal a good tax shows how tricky it can be to enact real tax reform. 

March 22, 2013
Women in Healthcare Suffer Abuse Inside and Outside the Home
Bryce Covert

The difficult conditions that affect domestic workers also plague nurses in hospitals.

March 20, 2013
NBA Player Royce White: Mental Health Revolutionary
Dave Zirin

Pro basketball player Royce White is laying claim to a powerful tradition by standing up for mental health in a society growing more stressful by the day.

February 13, 2013
Rubio's Lies About Healthcare Reform
George Zornick

In his rebuttal to the State of the Union Address, the Tea Party star failed to make his case that healthcare reform was harmful. 

February 13, 2013