Commentary Maternity and Birthing
In an election year that will determine whether the political tides will change, advocates are wary of empty promises to address racial disparities in maternal health.
The founder of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust admitted to conspiring to defraud Affordable Care Act programs of more than $27 million.
Maine residents are delaying critical health-care services because Gov. Paul LePage (R) has blocked the expansion of Medicaid after voters voted overwhelmingly for expansion in 2017.
Committee Democrats were not consulted in the decision to launch the investigation, according to a spokesperson.
“It hurts. It really does hurt that you have people with that much power not even seem like they care."
Democrats should run on ensuring accountability for the rich and powerful, and then it should actually hold those actors accountable.
Native people, who arguably have the most to lose with the construction of the pipelines, haven't been a priority at any stage of the permitting and construction process and, as such, their concerns are rarely heard in the media.
Gov. Scott Walker is softening his hardline opposition to Obamacare as health care becomes a vulnerable issue in his campaign.
The immersive pop-up was located at 230A Mulberry Street in Manhattan for four days last week. Although it resembled a high-end travel agency, fitting in at the epicenter of designer shops, it was far from a typical trip bureau. It offered travelers three destinations: to one of the few states where a New Yorker can access […]
Parents and students living in an Ohio school district say that the needs of children with legally recognized disabilities aren't being recognized.
For decades, East Chicago has been home to heavy industry that poisoned the city. But is also home to thousands of people, many of whom have illnesses likely caused by that pollution.
A growing number of patients have spoken out in recent years about how surgeries, performed when they were too young to understand—much less give consent—have deprived them of sexual pleasure, sterilized them, traumatized them, or altered their bodies to reinforce a gender assignment that is not theirs.
There must be some middle ground—not between right and wrong, but between different understandings of what constitutes abuse.
The Republicans’ absence challenges stereotypes about Dallas and reveals something about how they want to frame the relationship between religion and politics.
Data pointing to the detrimental health impacts of discrimination serve as a sobering reminder that the suggestion that LGBTQ people "just go to another baker" doesn't begin to solve the problem.
"The United States is violating domestic law, international law, asylum law, judicial standards of impartiality—you name it, we're doing it as a country."
In his memoir, the Mississippi writer implicates the national culture of lying, consumption of Black suffering, ideals that equate thinness with health, and himself.
The film’s directors said they wanted to show how abortion "has become so politicized that it is being used as a pawn to win presidencies.” But the film left a number of important stories regarding communities of color on the cutting room floor.
Working in the news industry can feel pretty traumatic these days. Here's how we're coping.
North Dakota’s voter identification law makes it harder for Native voters—and students, and other reliably Democratic voters—to participate in elections.
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Susan Collins is a "titanic fraud" and part of a fraudulent political system that must be changed.
Possession of khat, a chewable plant stimulant that's popular in the Horn of Africa, may condemn a Somali immigrant in New Hampshire to indefinite detention. And in other news, hookworm is making a comeback—in Alabama and in court.
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