How a Bureaucrat Helped Save the Affordable Care Act How a Bureaucrat Helped Save the Affordable Care Act
Andy Slavitt traveled the country explaining to some 35,000 Americans how ACA repeal would harm them. And it worked.
Jan 12, 2018 / Feature / Joshua Holland
‘If We Lose Our Health Care, We Will Begin to Die’ ‘If We Lose Our Health Care, We Will Begin to Die’
Disability activists are at the forefront of direct action against Trump.
Jan 10, 2018 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter
Republicans Are Using Fear of Eugenics to Attack Reproductive Rights Republicans Are Using Fear of Eugenics to Attack Reproductive Rights
Cute kids with Down syndrome, like my son, should never be an excuse to deny access to an abortion.
Jan 4, 2018 / David M. Perry
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
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
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
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