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More States Are Using Doulas to Help Solve the Maternal Health Crisis More States Are Using Doulas to Help Solve the Maternal Health Crisis
Over a dozen states reimburse services provided by these nonmedical professionals before, during, and after birth under Medicaid. But with this coverage comes new regulations.
Feb 22, 2024 / StudentNation / Kayla Yup
![Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Mandy Cohen rubs her head while taking notes during her end-of-day check-in inside her office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, September 21, 2023.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1775239384.jpg)
We’re Letting a Public Health Disaster Unfold In Slow Motion We’re Letting a Public Health Disaster Unfold In Slow Motion
Republicans are working hard to destroy our public health infrastructure. Too many Democrats are helping them. It needs to stop now.
Feb 22, 2024 / Gregg Gonsalves
![Injured Palestinians, including children, are brought to Nasser Hospital to receive medical treatment following Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on January 22, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1945742847.jpg)
Israel Has Created a Medical Apocalypse in Gaza Israel Has Created a Medical Apocalypse in Gaza
The hospital system is barely functional. Disease is running rampant. Medical workers are being kidnapped, tortured, and killed. And the world is letting it happen.
Feb 20, 2024 / Mary Turfah
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Taylor Swift May Yet Save Joe Biden Taylor Swift May Yet Save Joe Biden
Attacks on the popular singer help highlight the sheer weirdness of Trump’s GOP.
![A group of Palestinians, mostly children, hold out empty containers for food.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/gaza-aid-gt-img.jpg)
Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Cannot Prevent Catastrophe Without a Cease-Fire Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Cannot Prevent Catastrophe Without a Cease-Fire
As the death toll mounts, the urgent need for humanitarian aid has become a talking point that supposedly everyone can agree on. But the conditions on the ground in Gaza mean it’s ...
Jan 29, 2024 / Abdullah Shihipar
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After Four Years of Covid, We’ve Still Got Our Heads In the Sand After Four Years of Covid, We’ve Still Got Our Heads In the Sand
Liberals are in denial. Conservatives are trying to destroy public health. And the virus is still raging.
Jan 25, 2024 / Comment / Gregg Gonsalves
![Sarah Taber, 2024 candidate for North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sarah_Taber.jpg)
Why I’m Running for Commissioner of Agriculture in North Carolina Why I’m Running for Commissioner of Agriculture in North Carolina
The health of our state’s democracy depends so much on its agriculture and rural economics.
Jan 12, 2024 / Sarah Taber
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This Journalist Is Uncovering the Dirty Side of Fast Fashion This Journalist Is Uncovering the Dirty Side of Fast Fashion
Alden Wicker, author of To Dye For, wants our clothes to stop poisoning us.
Jan 10, 2024 / Off the Clock / Danielle Renwick
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year—From Covid Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year—From Covid
If we want to mitigate the great existential threats to our survival—from microbes to the warming planet—we’re going to need bolder thinking than “getting back to normal.”
Dec 27, 2023 / Gregg Gonsalves
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Reading “Mumbo Jumbo” in the Post-Covid Age Reading “Mumbo Jumbo”" "in the Post-Covid Age
Ishmael Reed's novel depicts an American government dedicated to public health as long as its efforts keep hierarchy and the status quo in place.
Dec 20, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Melvin Backman