Graduate Workers at UT Austin Are Undervalued, Underpaid, and Demanding Answers Graduate Workers at UT Austin Are Undervalued, Underpaid, and Demanding Answers
After a year of precarious pandemic protocols, the health of grad workers is now at risk.
Aug 2, 2021 / StudentNation / Annie Bares and John Mellison
Nurses Know Better Than Kevin McCarthy: Bring Masks Back Nurses Know Better Than Kevin McCarthy: Bring Masks Back
The National Nurses United union is pleading that masks be “universal, in all settings, for all people, regardless of vaccination status.”
Jul 29, 2021 / John Nichols
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Viruses? What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Viruses?
As in previous pandemics, a rise in xenophobic, nationalistic, and militaristic language has returned amid the Covid-19 crisis.
Jul 29, 2021 / StudentNation / Zoya Qureshi
Spare Us Your Covid Hypocrisy, Republicans Spare Us Your Covid Hypocrisy, Republicans
Some GOP leaders have done an about-face on vaccines. But they’re to blame for the pandemic’s ongoing spread—and always will be.
Jul 27, 2021 / Joan Walsh
Oregon Will Protect Reproductive Health Care When Hospitals Merge Oregon Will Protect Reproductive Health Care When Hospitals Merge
A landmark bill will ensure that health care services don’t disappear when Catholic hospitals take over other providers.
Jul 19, 2021 / Amy Littlefield
How Capitalism Invented the Care Economy How Capitalism Invented the Care Economy
This is what’s missing from the new conversation about care work.
Jul 16, 2021 / Premilla Nadasen
Imagining a Better Way to Grow Old in America Imagining a Better Way to Grow Old in America
If Americans approached aging and disability not as an individual crisis but as a collective responsibility, what kind of safety net could we build?
Jul 16, 2021 / Feature / Bryce Covert
For Women Under Conservatorship, Forced Birth Control Is Routine For Women Under Conservatorship, Forced Birth Control Is Routine
Advocates were not surprised when Britney Spears said she wasn’t allowed to have her IUD removed. They’d heard similar stories before.
Jul 15, 2021 / Sara Luterman
Ron Johnson Needs to Come With a Warning Label Ron Johnson Needs to Come With a Warning Label
When Johnson spreads misinformation about vaccines, he endangers Americans—and makes it harder to end the pandemic.
Jul 6, 2021 / John Nichols
Covid-19 Is a Wake-Up Call for American Health Care Covid-19 Is a Wake-Up Call for American Health Care
The pandemic showed how broken the system has always been. President Biden needs to make fixing it a top priority.
Jul 5, 2021 / Wendell Potter and Joe Sanberg