From medical health privacy laws to a maze of siloed information systems, the true impact of COVID-19 on American Indian and Alaska Natives is impossible to calculate.
A little alcohol can boost creativity and strengthen social ties. But there’s nothing moderate, or convivial, about the way many Americans drink today.
Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.
A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.
On the tragic flood of elder death in the wake of COVID-19.
And as time arcs and stops and speeds and slows now, I watch myself ride the agony of the death. It’s not out of resistance, exactly, but a need to inquire into both time’s speed and the callous logic, basically eugenicist, that on bad days, the rest of the world seems to hold: that she was old enough to die this way.
A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?
He covered car accidents for a years as a journalist. Then he was in two himself.
A cohort of journalists is drowning in burnout, trauma, and moral injury.
Jackie Thomas was $29,134 in debt and in trouble with state regulators. She hadn’t slept in days. If a judge ruled against her, she’d fail the mothers who could only keep their jobs thanks to the 24-hour child care she offered.
On India’s Covid catastrophe.
For decades, thousands of people came to Trinidad, Colorado, to have gender confirmation surgery done by Dr. Stanley Biber. This excerpt from Going To Trinidad tells his—and one of his patient’s—poignant stories.
New research is intensifying the debate — with profound implications for the future of the planet.
Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in America. Will Covid change that?
Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. The consequences have been profound.
What lasting impact will the pandemic have on America’s first responders?
As one blockmate after another fell ill, we tried to stay safe and care for one another. It wasn’t always enough.
A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it’s so hard to refuse it.
The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to Puritan Medical Products of Guilford, Maine. But even a $250 million infusion from the U.S. government has done little to quell an epic family feud.
Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. The consequences have been profound.
George Otto was a respected family physician with a bustling clinic in the northwest corner of the city. But he had a secret: after hours, he was running a booming fentanyl business.
Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs for coal ash.
A writer reckons with his debts, both financial and personal.
A notoriously brutal industry is slowly building supports for its workers.
A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.
How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?
