The disease is growing exponentially among elders.

Our current system defines health as the ability to work. Those who can’t are abandoned and exploited.

For-profit hospitals provide inferior care. But they make more money. And now, nonprofits want to hop on the gravy train.

The Florida representative wants to force people to work to get health care.

The popular YouTuber released a new video giving 1,000 blind people cataract surgery to restore their vision. Access to life-changing procedures like this shouldn’t be dependent on the goodwill of others.

More than 7,000 nurses at two of New York City’s largest hospitals are on strike, demanding better wages and better working conditions.

As the funding that helped turn the tide of the pandemic dries up, a dire burden mounts on the backs of uninsured Americans.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle spent the midterms telling us that more police and prisons will make us safer. Voters didn’t bite—and perhaps they know better.

Voters in California, Michigan, Vermont, Kentucky, and Montana all showed up to protect abortion.

Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant make the case for health care revolution.

The governor's race in Georgia will determine the future for abortion access in the state.

from Washington and beyond

We’re still seeing the long-term effects of Covid. Acting like the pandemic is over won’t help us address them.

The newest campaign against children’s hospitals is part of a much larger pattern.

The California governor’s shock veto of a bill that would have created safe injection sites is a shameful play for major donors who would fuel a future presidential run, at the expense of his most vulnerable constituents.

In a distinguished government career spanning more than half a century, he expertly steered America through two devastating pandemics. But given how Republicans have maliciously attacked him, why would anyone want to follow in his footsteps?

The administration expects to stop buying vaccines and treatment by year’s end, handing over these responsibilities to for-profit companies that are salivating at the opportunity.

The overwhelming rejection in deep-red Kansas of an anti-abortion referendum suggests that there may be a hidden army of voters out there who are furious about the Dobbs decision.

The Democrats finally have wind in their sails. The Arizona senator can halt the party’s progress with a statement.

Gay men are being disproportionately affected by the virus. While we don’t have all the answers on transmission, we should be asking why the U.S. government is failing to tackle yet another public health crisis.