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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The People Trump's War on Drugs Will Actually Punish
His campaign, backed by the Justice Department, only reinforces a law-enforcement paradigm that puts people of color in prison.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Should Pro-Life Clinics Have to Post Information About Abortion?
The Supreme Court will consider the rights of crisis pregnancy centers, which help women “imagine what the choice of life would be like.”
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Jerome Delay / AP Fixing the World's Oldest Health Problem
A new intervention from researchers, philanthropists, and government officials in Mali uses universal health care and basic public-health strategies to address child mortality.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Medicaid Expansion's Troubled Future
The Affordable Care Act’s extension of public insurance to poor adults might finally make its way into every state. But those inroads could come with a cost.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters The Real Lessons From Bill Clinton's Welfare Reform
The 1996 creation of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program effectively killed cash assistance. Now, Republicans want to use it as a model for the rest of the social safety net.
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David Tulis / AP Is the CDC Losing Control?
The country’s flagship public-health agency is facing internal scandal and funding issues that will test its ability to respond to outbreaks on the horizon.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters 'He’s Chosen This Movement as His Own'
At the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., pro-life activists said the president has a lot to be proud of.
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David Goldman / AP The American Health-Care System Increases Income Inequality
Even with the Affordable Care Act, the premium and payment structure of insurance increases the relative income gap between rich and poor.
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Courtesy of March for Life Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost
Advocates are tracking new developments in neonatal research and technology—and transforming one of America's most contentious debates.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Trump Backs Health-Care Workers Who Object to Providing Abortions
The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new office devoted to conscience objections and religious freedom on Thursday—an answer to long-standing objections from the right.
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Evan Vucci / AP Instead of Work Requirements, Why Not a Jobs Guarantee?
Paying people to work would be a more direct—and less expensive—way to lift them out of poverty.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Psychiatrist Telling Congress Trump Could Be Involuntarily Committed
A Yale professor says she’s telling lawmakers that the president may actually be “dangerous.”
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The Closing of the Republican Mind
The tax debate offers a clear measure of how deeply insular the GOP has become. It’s now governing solely of, by, and for Red America.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters The Rebirth of America's Pro-Natalist Movement
Activists on the right and left want policies that will reverse the country’s baby bust. But the broader culture—and Congress—don’t seem to care.
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Alan Diaz / AP Obamacare Is on the Ropes—Again
With open-enrollment numbers slipping, the Republican tax plan gaining steam, and CHIP still in limbo, critical elements of health-insurance programs are in danger.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Republican Obstruction of Obamacare Helped Put Trump in the White House
A new study finds that GOP efforts to undermine the health-care law gave the party a boost in 2016, despite—or even because of—how those actions made health care worse for voters.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The GOP's High-Risk Move to Whack Obamacare in Its Tax Bill
Republican senators will scrap the Affordable Care Act’s individual insurance mandate as part of their proposal, jeopardizing delicate negotiations for the chance at a double legislative win.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Why Notre Dame Reversed Course on Contraception
The Catholic university is caught between accommodating a diverse community and defending what it sees as religious freedom.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Shadow Government Working to Save Obamacare From Collapse
With the Trump administration refusing to promote open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act, a cadre of former Obama officials steps in to fill the void—with an assist from the ex-president himself.
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Carlos Giusti / AP Puerto Rico's Dire Health-Care Crisis
Over a month after Hurricane Maria, citizens are still facing limited access to medical help and the increasing threat of illness.
