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Reproductive justice advocates rallied on the day that Representative Barbara Lee introduced the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act on July 8, 2015.

How the Abortion Rights Activists Found Their Radical Imagination How the Abortion Rights Activists Found Their Radical Imagination

A long-shot campaign to restore public funding for abortion turned into the movement’s biggest success in a generation.

Mar 9, 2026 / Amy Littlefield

Raquel Willis, cofounder of the Gender Liberation Movement, is arrested along with two dozen other activists and parents outside of the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters on Tuesday.

We Must Raise Our Voices Against the Attacks on Trans Care We Must Raise Our Voices Against the Attacks on Trans Care

The Gender Liberation Movement’s Raquel Willis says trans youth “are our future” and that new HHS rules amount to a national ban on gender-affirming care for young people.

Feb 20, 2026 / Q&A / Regina Mahone

Thom Tillis (R-NC) takes the elevator at the US Capitol on June 30, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Thom Tillis Figured Out How to Tell the Truth in Trump’s GOP Cult: Quit Thom Tillis Figured Out How to Tell the Truth in Trump’s GOP Cult: Quit

The Republican senator dropped his reelection bid rather than lie about the devastating damage Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will do to Medicaid.

Jul 1, 2025 / John Nichols

Activists outside the office of US Representative Jeff Hurd (R-CO) in response to proposed cuts to Medicaid, on May 21, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Republicans’ “Big Beautiful” Medicaid Cuts Spur Rural Organizing Innovation Republicans’ “Big Beautiful” Medicaid Cuts Spur Rural Organizing Innovation

Taking away healthcare coverage isn’t just “morally wrong and politically suicidal,” in Senator Josh Hawley’s apt phrase. It’s also putting pressure on rural members of Congress.

May 30, 2025 / Erica Etelson

Georgia’s Disastrous Medicaid Work Requirements

Georgia’s Disastrous Medicaid Work Requirements Georgia’s Disastrous Medicaid Work Requirements

Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, said that 345,000 people would enroll in the state’s Medicaid program, which has strict work requirements—so far just 5,118 have.

Dec 3, 2024 / Column / Bryce Covert

Rep. Pramila Jayapal at a press conference on the upcoming debt limit in Washington, DC

Despairing? Here’s a Bold, Populist, Popular, and Progressive Domestic Agenda for 2025 and Beyond. Despairing? Here’s a Bold, Populist, Popular, and Progressive Domestic Agenda for 2025 and Beyond.

How the Congressional Progressive Caucus is driving the center of the Democratic Party in a new direction.

Apr 29, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A sign on a bodega in Brooklyn reads,

The Racist, Insulting Resurgence of Work Requirements The Racist, Insulting Resurgence of Work Requirements

Work requirements expose the nasty underbelly of the vaunted American work ethic. We would rather the poor starve than risk that they might spend less time on the job.

Jun 8, 2023 / Bryce Covert

Woman receiving breast exam

The Collapse of This Texas Health Care Program Is Putting Women’s Lives in Danger The Collapse of This Texas Health Care Program Is Putting Women’s Lives in Danger

For low-income, rural, and uninsured women across the state, the Healthy Texas Women program means access to lifesaving medical care—and it may soon disappear.

May 22, 2023 / Julie Poole

A mobile Covid-19 testing site in New York.

What the Country Refused to Learn From the Pandemic What the Country Refused to Learn From the Pandemic

However briefly, the pandemic showed us that such an American world is not only possible but right at our fingertips.

May 4, 2023 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

A patient rests in a corridor waiting for a room at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in California on January 3, 2021.

Why Do the Richest Americans Live a Decade Longer Than the Poorest? Why Do the Richest Americans Live a Decade Longer Than the Poorest?

Falling life expectancy is no accident—it is a direct result, and failure, of policy.

Apr 11, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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