Would You Rather Grow Old at Home With Your Family or Alone in a Nursing Home? Would You Rather Grow Old at Home With Your Family or Alone in a Nursing Home?
How Ai-jen Poo’s radical vision for caregiving could remake our economy along more humane lines.
Apr 22, 2015 / Michelle Chen and Sarah Jaffe
How to Die How to Die
Atul Gawande argues that physicians should focus care on the good life—including its very end.
Apr 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Sophia Rosenfeld
If You Quit Your Job to Care For a Loved One, You Could Qualify for Unemployment If You Quit Your Job to Care For a Loved One, You Could Qualify for Unemployment
But more often than not, states are preventing workers from securing unemployment benefits.
Apr 14, 2015 / Michelle Chen
There Are No Abortion Cakes There Are No Abortion Cakes
If CEOs are worried that their LGBT employees won’t be treated as equals in Indiana, they should show as much concern for their pregnant and potentially pregnant employees.
Apr 8, 2015 / Katha Pollitt
How Much Does Domestic Abuse Cost Its Survivors? How Much Does Domestic Abuse Cost Its Survivors?
Underfunded, poorly designed systems of support are leaving survivors with instability over a lifetime.
Apr 6, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Fields of Toxic Pesticides Surround the Schools of Ventura County—Are They Poisoning the Students? Fields of Toxic Pesticides Surround the Schools of Ventura County—Are They Poisoning the Students?
In some of California’s most heavily Latino communities, going to school can be a health hazard.
Apr 6, 2015 / Liza Gross
Who’s Getting Rich Off Your Genes? Who’s Getting Rich Off Your Genes?
The scientific race toward “precision medicine” is shifting the ethical foundations of public health.
Apr 3, 2015 / Patricia J. Williams
‘Masturbation Will Lead to Homosexuality’: China’s LGBT Sex-Ed Problem ‘Masturbation Will Lead to Homosexuality’: China’s LGBT Sex-Ed Problem
When it comes to the birds and the bees, LGBT Chinese students remain in the dark.
Apr 2, 2015 / Cole Delbyck
The Indiana HIV Crisis Didn’t Have to Happen The Indiana HIV Crisis Didn’t Have to Happen
Needle exchange programs save lives. So why are they illegal in 23 states?
Apr 1, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Indiana Just Sentenced a Woman Convicted of Feticide to Twenty Years in Prison Indiana Just Sentenced a Woman Convicted of Feticide to Twenty Years in Prison
We’ve reached a point where desperate women who end their pregnancies before viability are being locked up.
Mar 30, 2015 / Michelle Goldberg