For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have promised to help teenagers kick drug and alcohol addiction. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.

Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser—a form of restorative justice—help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?

Those who are incarcerated are suing for their right to gender confirmation surgery—if deemed necessary. Meet the psychiatrist who almost always says it’s not.

On losing your Beloved in 2020.

Why now is the time to rethink COVID safety protocols for children—and everyone else.

Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline.

For the nurses in the Appalachian highlands who risked their lives during the pandemic, it is as if they fought in a war no one acknowledges.

For one writer, “Hot Vax Summer” is a slow climb.

An internet huckster got rich selling a sex enhancement supplement named Stiff Nights. Then the FDA sampled his wares.

Residents have lived near more than 100 massive petroleum storage tanks for decades, never really knowing if they’re breathing in dangerous chemicals. Now they’re fighting to find out.

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?