The Human Cost of Work Requirements
After a grad student lost her Medicaid coverage, she turned to cocaine and painkillers.
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Life in the Shadow of ‘Clean Coal’
Barbara Szalai wasn’t worried about moving upriver from a coal plant. Then sticky black dust started coating her home, and the headaches and allergies began.
Trump Added Insult to Injury for Charlottesville Survivors
“I really thought that it was something that I could kind of brush over and move past, like a lot of other things in my life. And it didn’t turn out to be like that.”
How Trump Changed a Young Judge’s Life
Before the president promoted Justin Walker to a federal appeals court, Walker had been a district-court judge for less than a year.
How the ‘African Ban’ Ripped a Family Apart
A January immigration ruling didn’t cause as much of a stir as the 2017 Muslim ban. But it upended countless families’ plans.
The Impossible Job of a Parent Navigating Zoom School
A mother of five young kids is considering taking their education into her own hands.
The Pandemic’s Toll on Meatpacking Workers
How fear and infection spread across the factory floor