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November 15, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republicans Sucking Up to Trump Too Afraid to Criticize RFK Jr.
Not a single Republican lawmaker seems willing to criticize Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS secretary.
November 8, 2024
Edith Olmsted
RFK Jr. May Not Be Able to Join Trump’s Cabinet for Funniest Reason
Some of Donald Trump’s advisers worry the animal corpses present a problem.
November 8, 2024
Edith Olmsted
RFK Jr. Has Terrifying Plan for First Day in Trump’s Administration
Donald Trump has promised to put Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in charge of public health.
November 6, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s First Election Promise Is Making Us Sick (Literally)
Donald Trump is already promising to put RFK Jr. in charge of public health.
October 31, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Top Trump Adviser Wants to Cause a Plague
Donald Trump’s transition chief doesn’t think vaccines actually work.
July 20, 2022
Laura Weiss
After Roe’s Repeal, CVS Told Pharmacists to Withhold Certain Prescriptions
The retail health care giant instructed pharmacies to check why customers need medications such as methotrexate—and to refuse to provide them if they can’t prove they’re not for an abortion.
June 3, 2019
Alex Pareene
Do Democrats Actually Want to Make Drugs Cheaper?
Or are they just looking to cut a deal for the sake of cutting a deal?
June 27, 2018
Katrine Jo Andersen, Cecilie Maria Kallestrup
Rejected by A.A.
How the 12 Step program and its decades-old philosophy are exacerbating the opioid crisis
February 2, 2016
Steven Cohen
The war on drugs keeps getting softer.
January 24, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Obamacare Enrollment Chugging Along, Up to 3 Million
May 18, 2012
Charles Homans
Two Thumbs Up
March 23, 2012
Jonathan Cohn
Obamacare's (Somewhat) Happy Birthday
November 11, 2011
Jonathan Cohn
Daily Deadline: Brothers in Arms
October 20, 2011
Jonathan Cohn
Head Start or False Start?
October 3, 2011
Pema Levy
How the Obama Administration Is Jeopardizing Health Care Reform
August 1, 2011
Jonathan Cohn
Free Birth Control!
February 3, 2011
Bradford Plumer
Can't Repeal Health Care Reform? Just Bury It In Paperwork
August 30, 2010
Jonathan Cohn
Counterpoint: Bush, Reagan Didn't Make You Sick
August 17, 2010
Jonathan Cohn
Get Ready for Sebelius v. Insurers
July 1, 2010
Jonathan Cohn
Hey, Sometimes Government Works

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