Delaware's Opioid Crisis
On the ground in Wilmington.
Health
How a New Technology Is Changing the Lives of People Who Cannot Speak
The same “Stephen Hawking voice” is used by little girls, old men, and people of every racial and ethnic background. Inside the quest to give people a voice of their own.
Within Reach
The transgender community fights for health care.
‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?’
Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. He would wait 1,266 days in an adult jail.
Cadavers in the Ballroom
How the hospitality world rents space for physicians to train.
China's Selfie Obsession
What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.
The Touch of Madness
Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.
Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Not education. Not income. Not even being an expert on racial disparities in health care.
Compromised
How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.
I Never Got the Chance to Protect My Child
“To fight for my son, I have to argue that he should never have been born.”
The Last of the Iron Lungs
There are just a handful of people using iron lungs in the U.S. And the machines they rely on to live are wearing out.
The Goddess Myth
How a perfect vision of mother hood hurts moms.
Trans, Teen and Homeless: America's Most Vulnerable Population
An estimated 70,000 transgender youth lack secure housing. This is what life on the streets is like for six of them.
Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?
On whether kids should be protected or pushed.
How Science Is Unlocking the Secrets of Addiction
Not long ago the idea of repairing the brain’s wiring to fight addiction would have seemed far-fetched. But advances in neuroscience have upended conventional notions about addiction—what it is, what can trigger it, and why quitting is so tough.
Is Health Care A Right?
A search for common ground.
Searching For Help
She turned to Google for help getting sober. Then she had to escape a nightmare.
How Not To Die
How two veterans with PTSD turned a Canadian military town into a medical-marijuana hub.
Jeni Stepanek’s Last Heartsong
A mom looks back on the “brief but wondrous experience” of raising her son Mattie, a little boy poet with a devastating rare disease who earned a following around the world.
The Hungriest Man on Earth
How the heaviest man in the NFL survived a life of pain and transformed his body after falling in love.
Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age
How “health” replaced “dieting” and what it means for Weight Watchers.
A Son's Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality
As a father succumbs to lung cancer, his son tries to recreate his personality in the form of a chatbot.
Eat, Memory
“The last time I ate real food, actually chewed and swallowed, was six years ago.”
The Hacker Who Cared Too Much
He hacked a hospital to protest their treatment of a sick child. Now he’s facing 15 years.
The Last Shot
How Vivitrol, a little-known anti-addiction drug, became the mandatory treatment for opioid abuse in drug courts across the United States.
