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August 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
White House’s Argument on Ousted CDC Director Gets More Unbelievable
It’s been an incredibly chaotic week at the CDC.
August 28, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Now We Know Why RFK Jr. Wanted to Fire This CDC Director
Susan Monarez lasted less than a month in her position.
August 28, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
RFK Jr. Makes Extremely Weird Comments About How Children Look
The HHS secretary seems to believe he can diagnose kids with a glance.
August 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
RFK Jr. Finds Twisted Reason to Take Away Your Anti-Depression Meds
The comments occurred during a discussion on the Minneapolis mass shooting.
August 27, 2025
Edith Olmsted
CDC Director Remarkably Ousted After Less Than a Month on the Job
Susan Monarez, we barely knew ye.
August 27, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
RFK Jr Just Made It Very Hard to Get a Covid Vaccine
It’s a deeply troubling move.
August 25, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump and RFK Jr. Plan to Scrap Covid Vaccine, Because Why Not
The Trump administration reportedly plans to pull it from shelves within months.
June 26, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
RFK Jr. Admits His Policies Are Hurting Children
The Health and Human Services chief shrugged as he admitted that we will see an increase in cavities if he succeeds in removing fluoride from drinking water.
July 27, 2022
Laura Weiss
Pharmacists and Patients Are Freaking Out Over New Medication Restrictions Post-
Roe
As chains such as CVS and Walgreens try to protect themselves from criminal penalties over abortion bans, their staff are left confused, and patients with chronic illnesses struggle to access treatment.
July 20, 2022
Laura Weiss
After
Roe
’s Repeal, CVS Told Pharmacists to Withhold Certain Prescriptions
The retail health care giant instructed pharmacies to check why customers need medications such as methotrexate—and to refuse to provide them if they can’t prove they’re not for an abortion.
June 24, 2022
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Win McCormack
Doctors of America, Unite!
And shake off your neoliberal chains.
October 25, 2021
Molly Osberg
Is Covid Really to Blame for the Nursing Shortage?
Hospital cost-cutting and systematic devaluation of nurses’ labor has been going on for decades.
May 14, 2021
Jo Livingstone
Branding ACT UP
On the aesthetic legacy of HIV/AIDS activism in our own time of viral panic.
May 6, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Big Pharma: There’s No Easy Way Out of the Vaccine Crisis We Created
Corporate America might protest, but the potential of a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines is worth celebrating—and fighting for.
April 30, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Tech Giants’ Obscene Pandemic Profits Are Begging to Be Taxed
The post-Covid economic recovery looks anything but fair. Tax the titans of the pandemic!
March 26, 2021
Jake Bittle
The Nail-Biting Story of Obamacare
Jonathan Cohn’s new book shows how narrowly health care reform passed—and how far we are from universal coverage.
September 28, 2020
Libby Watson
Trump Lies, and the Media Abides
He says his executive order will protect people with preexisting conditions, no matter what happens to Obamacare. That’s not true.
May 7, 2020
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Liza Featherstone
The Pandemic Is a Family Emergency
How the coronavirus exposes a crisis of care work
April 27, 2020
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John Semley
Turn On, Tune In, Cash In
Sizing up the commercial and therapeutic prospects for the psychedelic revival
March 25, 2020
Sarah Baird
The Rural Coronavirus Crisis to Come
While cities like New York are the epicenter of the epidemic, smaller communities with scant resources are bracing for impact.
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