Health Care

A memorial for the loss of funding for research and public health programs is placed in front of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Disaster Awaits Us if the NIH Dies Disaster Awaits Us if the NIH Dies

We need to be sending more federal research dollars to more people in more places. Instead, the government is doing the opposite.

May 20, 2025 / Abdullah Shihipar, Brandon Marshall, and Alexandra Skinner

What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?

What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions? What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?

Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.

May 13, 2025 / Feature / Amy Littlefield

Children participate in activities at the Head Start classroom in the Carl and Norma Millers Childrens Center on March 13, 2023, in Frederick, Maryland.

Mothers Don’t Need Medals—They Need a Better World for Their Children Mothers Don’t Need Medals—They Need a Better World for Their Children

Republicans' pro-motherhood policies are a sham. Democrats have a chance to do better.

May 11, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Donald Trump, accompanied by National Institutes of Health Director Jayanta Bhattacharya (L), and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (R), speaks in the Oval Office at the White House on May 5, 2025. in Washington, DC.

Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH

Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.

May 8, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

Voted for Poor Health

Voted for Poor Health Voted for Poor Health

Buyers’ remorse for MAGA?

May 7, 2025 / OppArt / Jesse Duquette

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Oval Office on April 18, 2025.

Trump’s Legacy Will Be the Countless People Killed by His Policies Trump’s Legacy Will Be the Countless People Killed by His Policies

Millions across the world could die because of the choices Trump has made in his first 100 days.

May 1, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights

Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights

Vision of progress.

Apr 24, 2025 / OppArt / Sylvia Hernández

Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for Your Pet Food

Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for Your Pet Food Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for Your Pet Food

You may not think raw food for cats and dogs could be harmful, but new cases suggest these brands and their evangelists could be putting your pets at risk.

Apr 24, 2025 / Emmet Fraizer

Supporters of transgender youth demonstrate outside Children's Hospital Los Angeles on February 6, 2025, in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order threatening to pull federal funding from healthcare providers who offer gender-affirming care to children.

The Rise of Medical Fascism The Rise of Medical Fascism

The US medical profession’s long history of complicity with state violence has prepared it for compliance with Trump’s authoritarian orders.

Apr 21, 2025 / Eric Reinhart

Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define

Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define

Tariffs and trade are not side issues, but a central front in the battle against monopoly power—and for self-government.

Apr 17, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout

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