Meet Sandy Morris, the ALS Heroine Hardly Anybody Knows Meet Sandy Morris, the ALS Heroine Hardly Anybody Knows
Anthony Fauci understood that making people like Sandy who are living with a disease part of the research process leads to better science. But the rest of the NIH still hasn’t gott...
Sep 1, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves
Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives
With the government refusing to make medicine and medical equipment accessible, sick, and disabled people have to rely on each other for support.
Aug 26, 2022 / First Person / Nolan Trowe
Trying to Keep the Roof on in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Trying to Keep the Roof on in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
While the petrochemical industry keeps blowing it off.
Aug 19, 2022 / Michael Esealuka
Stop Telling Americans That They’re “Tired of Covid” Stop Telling Americans That They’re “Tired of Covid”
Shifting responsibility for the pandemic onto individuals is bad policy—and risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom.
Aug 18, 2022 / Martha Lincoln
Synthetic Drugs Are Sending the Overdose Crisis Into Overdrive Synthetic Drugs Are Sending the Overdose Crisis Into Overdrive
US policy is keeping public health officials, scientists, and emergency-room doctors in the dark about a growing manufactured plague.
Aug 9, 2022 / Joseph Friedman and Eric Reinhart
Monkeypox Makes It 3 Strikes, and Now We’re Out Monkeypox Makes It 3 Strikes, and Now We’re Out
We know what to do. We have the tools. We simply don’t want to do it.
Aug 4, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves
Lula’s Comeback Campaign: The Stakes for Brazil—and Democracy Lula’s Comeback Campaign: The Stakes for Brazil—and Democracy
In an exclusive interview with The Nation, Celso Amorim, who served as both foreign minister and defense minister, explains why much more than a resurgent Pink Tide is riding on th...
Aug 3, 2022 / Pablo Calvi
The US Is Bad at Handling Epidemics. Monkeypox Is the Latest Example. The US Is Bad at Handling Epidemics. Monkeypox Is the Latest Example.
Vaccines are limited, communication is poor, and conspiracy theories abound.
Aug 2, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Boris Johnson’s (Far From Final) Bill for Damages Boris Johnson’s (Far From Final) Bill for Damages
While the elderly white men who run Britain’s Conservative Party chose between two deeply depressing choices for new leader, let’s take a minute to reckon just how much ruin the di...
Aug 1, 2022 / Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Democrats Can’t Leave Pro-Choice Votes on the Table Democrats Can’t Leave Pro-Choice Votes on the Table
The Roe reversal has brought together a potential coalition that, if leveraged, could prove a powerful challenge to the anti-abortion movement.
Jul 27, 2022 / Addy Baird