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May 12, 2022
The Hyde Amendment Is Not an Excuse to Do Nothing to Protect Abortion Rights
The federal government still has power to protect abortion rights, and it’s time the Biden administration used it.
Elie Mystal
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May 12, 2022
The Blind Spot in Medicare for All
If we adopt a single-payer structure without remaking the bureaucracy, we will perpetuate the perversity at the core of our medical system.
Eric Reinhart
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May 11, 2022
Congress Leaves Those Most Endangered by Covid in the Lurch
The pandemic’s profoundly unequal toll has been made much worse by congressional inaction.
Benjy Renton, Oni Blackstock and Julia Raifman
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May 10, 2022
Are Joe Biden, Democrats, Ready to Fight in a Post-“Roe” World?
Reproductive freedom could give Democrats an edge if the party leadership weren’t so cowardly.
Jeet Heer
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May 10, 2022
Famed Chicago Alt-Weekly Barely Survives a Covid Scare
When the Chicago Reader’s editor sent the co-owner’s anti-vax column to be fact-checked, the fallout nearly killed the paper.
J. Duncan Moore Jr.
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May 10, 2022
Biden Must Not Allow Big Pharma to Hoard Vaccine Technology
The United States has an obligation to help vaccinate the world.
Ady Barkan
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May 10, 2022
Nurses Are Fighting Back—but the Nightmare Continues
Despite a wave of strikes spurred by the pandemic, they are still working in unsustainable conditions and hospitals are dangerously understaffed.
Bryce Covert
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May 3, 2022
Angela Garbes on Mothering for the World We Want
Garbes’s new book looks at what it means to be a parent when we are “caught between the way we were raised and the way we want to live.”
Sara Franklin
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April 29, 2022
The Biden Administration Is Leaving the States to Deal With Covid on Their Own
Public Health Emergency measures are slated to end in July—and with them, coverage for millions of Americans.
Aída Chávez
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April 22, 2022
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.
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis