A field guide to our threadbare social safety net.
December 6, 2017Republicans have long dreamed of destroying the social safety net once and for all; this bill finally threatens to accomplish that.
November 12, 2017Abortion was made legal by the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. But since 1976, Congress has restricted access to abortion by refusing to allow federal dollars to cover abortion services. Poor women, service women, government workers and Native Americans are the most affected. Find out how.
October 5, 2017Republican leaders are reeling from their primary loss in Alabama and the demise of their health-care bill, but they have only themselves — and their big donors — to blame.
September 14, 2017She served her country and worked hard to provide for her family. She would be lost without Medicaid.
September 5, 2017Over a dozen conservative governors are trying to cut the program through a scheme known as a “Medicaid waiver.”
August 8, 2017An Australian journalist wonders why Americans aren't more upset about their lackluster health care.
July 30, 2017Yes, our health system is broken, but broken systems can be fixed — not easily, but they can be fixed.
July 11, 2017Fighting back against the right's politics of exclusion can be a path toward rebuilding American democracy
June 27, 2017Look closely and you'll see the Senate's bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act is even worse than the House's.
