How the Justice Department Can Help Solve the Opioid Crisis How the Justice Department Can Help Solve the Opioid Crisis
Instead of criminalizing drug use, the Department of Justice should do these three things.
Dec 18, 2017 / Megan McLemore
Lil Peep’s Optimist Love Songs Lil Peep’s Optimist Love Songs
Gustav Åhr was emo-rap’s most visible representative and the genre’s most mainstream success, but what set his music apart was not its despair but its deep sense of hope.
Dec 15, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
These Pharmaceutical Companies Are Making a Killing Off the Opioid Crisis These Pharmaceutical Companies Are Making a Killing Off the Opioid Crisis
Why do the manufacturers of naloxone, the life-saving overdose antidote, keep hiking the price?
Dec 15, 2017 / Daniel Denvir
An HIV-Positive Gay Asylum Seeker Staged a 7-Day Hunger Strike in an ICE Detention Facility An HIV-Positive Gay Asylum Seeker Staged a 7-Day Hunger Strike in an ICE Detention Facility
Protesting prolonged detention, substandard medical care, and parole denial, Jesus Rodriguez Mendoza may soon stop eating again.
Dec 12, 2017 / John Washington
Prosecuting Drug-Addicted Pregnant Women Helps No One Prosecuting Drug-Addicted Pregnant Women Helps No One
Kasey Dischman was charged with a crime for overdosing and delivering her daughter prematurely. She’s still in jail.
Dec 1, 2017 / Column / Katha Pollitt
What Does It Mean to Remember AIDS? What Does It Mean to Remember AIDS?
We’ve seen a flood of retrospective projects about AIDS—from books to dance to architecture and art. But who is being remembered? And why?
Nov 30, 2017 / Alisa Solomon
The New Sewer Socialists Are Building an Equitable Internet The New Sewer Socialists Are Building an Equitable Internet
A blue-collar manufacturing town in southern Appalachia offers a roadmap for reclaiming the Internet’s utopian potential.
Nov 28, 2017 / Cities Rising / Evan Malmgren
In Prison, Women Are 9 Times More Likely to Be HIV-Positive In Prison, Women Are 9 Times More Likely to Be HIV-Positive
The disparity between infection rates in incarcerated and non-incarcerated women highlights the deeply unequal state of our criminal-justice system.
Nov 24, 2017 / Akilah Wise
Oppose Alex Azar, President Trump’s Pick for Health and Human Services Secretary Oppose Alex Azar, President Trump’s Pick for Health and Human Services Secretary
While he was at Eli Lilly, the company more than tripled the price of its best-selling insulin.
Nov 22, 2017 / no-paywall / NationAction
Alex Azar, Trump’s HHS Pick, Has Already Been a Disaster for People With Diabetes Alex Azar, Trump’s HHS Pick, Has Already Been a Disaster for People With Diabetes
While he was at Eli Lilly, the company more than tripled the price of its best-selling insulin.
Nov 21, 2017 / James Elliott