Health and Disease

In Atlanta, January 24, 2014, an EMS worker wheels a patient through Grady Memorial Hospital’s emergency department.

Where’s the GOP’s Health-Care Plan? Where’s the GOP’s Health-Care Plan?

This isn’t simply about dollars and sense. This is about lives and health.

Jan 10, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Obamacare Signing

Republicans Can’t Just Pretend Obamacare Never Happened Republicans Can’t Just Pretend Obamacare Never Happened

It may be here to stay. 

Jan 6, 2017 / David Dayen

What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws?

What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws? What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws?

Abortion is illegal in El Salvador—even in the midst of a public health crisis. But some feminists and doctors are fighting back.

Dec 14, 2016 / Madeleine Schwartz

The Mysterious Magnetism of Michelle Obama

The Mysterious Magnetism of Michelle Obama The Mysterious Magnetism of Michelle Obama

How did the first lady, a model of intelligence and grace, manage to keep her composure?

Dec 14, 2016 / Feature / Adrienne Kennedy

Heroin needle preparation

Did the Opioid Epidemic Help Donald Trump Win? Did the Opioid Epidemic Help Donald Trump Win?

New research shows that Trump made huge gains in counties with the highest rates of death from drugs, alcohol, and suicide.

Dec 7, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

One Flew Over Bellevue

One Flew Over Bellevue One Flew Over Bellevue

As little as David Oshinsky might care to admit it, the idea that Bellevue is a place for “crazies” has stuck in our cultural consciousness.

Dec 3, 2016 / Nathan Smith

Dakota Pipeline police

How You Can Stand With Standing Rock How You Can Stand With Standing Rock

Today’s #NoDAPL action targets the Army Corps of Engineers. Watch this video—then call them.

Nov 15, 2016 / Take Action / Julia Mead

Junior doctors' strike

How I Found Heaven in a Public Hospital How I Found Heaven in a Public Hospital

Britain’s National Health Service is a cosmopolitan, welfare-state utopia—one that conservatives everywhere want to abolish.

Oct 21, 2016 / Frederika Randall

This Mother Has Breast Cancer and Knows She Needs Treatment. Why Can’t She Get It?

This Mother Has Breast Cancer and Knows She Needs Treatment. Why Can’t She Get It? This Mother Has Breast Cancer and Knows She Needs Treatment. Why Can’t She Get It?

Actress America Ferrara speaks with an undocumented immigrant who is trapped without health care in Texas.

Oct 14, 2016 / Video / The Nation

Mike Pence Indiana

The Latest Anti-Abortion Trend? Mandatory Funerals for Fetuses The Latest Anti-Abortion Trend? Mandatory Funerals for Fetuses

Now that the Supreme Court has thrown out TRAP laws, opponents have a new tactic.

Oct 11, 2016 / Rebecca Grant

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