Omar al-Najjar In Gaza’s Hospitals It’s not easy to work under continuous military attack, to wake up and close your eyes to injuries and corpses, to feel helpless to stop it all. April 19, 2024
Joseph O’Neill Embracing Defeat Faced with a coordinated right-wing legal assault, the Democratic Party has responded with a passivity that borders on surrender. April 23, 2023
Liza Batkin Men Explain Abortion Drugs to the FDA In a Texas lawsuit, Christian medical organizations are asking a hand-picked judge to make the FDA rescind its approval of mifepristone. They might succeed. March 7, 2023
Willa Glickman ‘A Wakeup Call from Hell’ By striking for safe staffing levels, New York City nurses joined a wave of labor unrest that has swept the health care industry in response to Covid-19. March 1, 2023
Jill Filipovic Choice by Mail With Roe v. Wade under threat, abortion rights in the US are facing their greatest challenge yet. Enter the Dutch doctor who has opened a new front with safe medication on demand. January 11, 2022
Gavin Francis Human Diagnostics “Life in lockdown is not natural for the majority of Homo sapiens. In the ballooning of mental health problems this year, we’ve seen just how deleterious those kinds of restrictions are.” October 2, 2021
Jill Filipovic US Abortion Politics in Conflict Zones From Rwanda and Bosnia to Myanmar and Tigray, rape is now recognized as a genocidal crime. Yet its survivors rarely receive the health care they need—thanks to America’s deadly culture war. June 16, 2021
Timothy Snyder What Ails America Although I did not understand this then, I had a severe infection in my liver. I was in a condition known as sepsis; death was close. September 3, 2020
Jamieson Webster End Notes: Palliative Care in a Pandemic Many, in the early days, said the virus did not stop at borders, did not respect hierarchies, that it affected all equally. Covid-19 was democratic. We were deceived. April 24, 2020
Ariane Chang A Paris Clinic’s First Covid-19 Delivery It didn’t occur to me that the virus would affect anyone my age, let alone me. I was simply focused on the baby’s arrival. April 2, 2020