Health and Disease

The Pandemic Revealed America’s Deeper Sickness

The Pandemic Revealed America’s Deeper Sickness The Pandemic Revealed America’s Deeper Sickness

How the pandemic seeded new Astroturf for the right.

May 17, 2022 / Nina Burleigh

Congress Leaves Those Most Endangered by Covid in the Lurch

Congress Leaves Those Most Endangered by Covid in the Lurch Congress Leaves Those Most Endangered by Covid in the Lurch

The pandemic’s profoundly unequal toll has been made much worse by congressional inaction.

May 11, 2022 / Benjy Renton, Oni Blackstock, and Julia Raifman

A protest with a screen showing Ady Barkan outside the White House

Biden Must Not Allow Big Pharma to Hoard Vaccine Technology Biden Must Not Allow Big Pharma to Hoard Vaccine Technology

The United States has an obligation to help vaccinate the world.

May 10, 2022 / Ady Barkan

Our Floundering Public School System Is Failing Teachers

Our Floundering Public School System Is Failing Teachers Our Floundering Public School System Is Failing Teachers

Wherever you want to lay the blame, the solution isn’t hard to find—it’s just expensive.

Apr 29, 2022 / Frida Berrigan

Covid Is Still Disproportionately Killing Low-Income People

Covid Is Still Disproportionately Killing Low-Income People Covid Is Still Disproportionately Killing Low-Income People

Though a virus may not be able to discriminate, our society has in fact discriminated in the most virulent ways.

Apr 22, 2022 / Highlights / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

Laura Rankin

Without Clinic Escorts, Abortion Would Be Even Harder to Access Without Clinic Escorts, Abortion Would Be Even Harder to Access

Lauren Rankin’s new book about abortion clinic escorts, Bodies on the Line, shows how much ordinary people can do to ensure that abortion is accessible in America.

Apr 19, 2022 / Back Page / Amy Littlefield

U.S.-CALIFORNIA-SACRAMENTO-SHOOTING

The Deadly Side of the American Dream The Deadly Side of the American Dream

How did we as a society come to conflate making it easier to shed blood with freedom?

Apr 15, 2022 / Sasha Abramsky

Merrick Garland, who tested positive for Covid, at a press conference

Laughing Ourselves to Death at the Gridiron Dinner Laughing Ourselves to Death at the Gridiron Dinner

As Democrats embrace rugged individualism, the pundit class leans into public health apartheid.

Apr 14, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

193 Heartless Bastards in the House of Representatives

193 Heartless Bastards in the House of Representatives 193 Heartless Bastards in the House of Representatives

Most House Republicans voted against capping insulin costs. Why? They defended the right of greedy capitalists to be greedy capitalists.

Apr 7, 2022 / John Nichols

RaDonda Vaught arrives at court hearing

In Criminalizing Error, We Are Doomed to Repeat Our Mistakes In Criminalizing Error, We Are Doomed to Repeat Our Mistakes

Sending a nurse to prison for causing a patient’s death may satisfy the thirst for vengeance, but it won’t make hospitals any safer.

Apr 5, 2022 / Jessie Singer

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