Science and Health

Dream Act Christmas

Keep the Fight Against Trump Alive With a Generous Donation This Holiday Season Keep the Fight Against Trump Alive With a Generous Donation This Holiday Season

These organizations are fighting the pernicious effects of his administration. Now’s the time to give them a boost.

Dec 21, 2017 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Ralph Northam

Will Ralph Northam Break His Campaign Pledge to Expand Medicaid? Will Ralph Northam Break His Campaign Pledge to Expand Medicaid?

400,000 Virginians are waiting for him to follow through. 

Dec 20, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter

Bears Ears dark money

The Far-Right Campaign to Destroy Our National Monuments The Far-Right Campaign to Destroy Our National Monuments

The attack on Bears Ears was just the first successful salvo of a robust offensive backed by dark money and powerful allies in Washington.

Dec 20, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias

Jeff Sessions

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

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

Naloxone container

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

ICE detention facility

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 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? 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

EPB technicians

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

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