Done the right way, lowering the program’s eligibility age could reap huge benefits for ordinary Americans, and offer Democrats an electoral advantage.

The way we look after the elderly in this country is broken. But is funneling money into home care enough to solve the problem?

What the debate about the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine, birth control, and blood clots was really about

Silicon Valley’s exploitative entrepreneurial set has come to rescue the recently detached royals from a life outside the upper crust, to the detriment of the rest of us.

You might be tired of Zoom calls or home cooking, but that’s not the same as what a frontline health worker is experiencing.

Nations across the world are demanding the right to manufacture their own Covid-19 vaccines. Why is the U.S. saying no?

The Covid-19 vaccines are extremely safe and effective, but many people are still hesitant to take one. Here’s how to persuade them.

Employees of LHC Group describe a business model that prioritized profits and compromised patient care. Soon they reached a breaking point: “It just didn’t make me feel right, doing what I did.”

The Democratic senator has survived in West Virginia by casting himself as a champion of working people. Will his fixation on bipartisanship prevent him from living up to the role?

Thousands of people have been suffering a slew of crazy postinfection syndromes for months—and there’s no end in sight.

Stories from the pandemic unemployed, underemployed, or otherwise put out.

A consideration of dirty work, the people who dream of doing it, and what it means for everyone else

How single-payer advocates can keep their cause from being pushed into the political wilderness

Joe Biden says that our institutions are under assault, but saving them will require more than Trump’s removal.

We need a country that doesn’t make debt accumulation the cost of entry into a decent life.

Trump campaigned on one kind of nostalgia, while Biden campaigned on another. The less regressive vision won out, but we’re still hurtling toward the abyss.

Despite the region’s rich history of reproductive care, birth options remain incredibly limited. A group of midwives in Kentucky want to change that.

Dying? Hail an Uber, because lawmakers exempted ambulances from their medical-bill reforms—much to private equity’s delight.

He needs to prove that he is serious about breaking the policies of inequity and favoritism that flourished under Trump.

Hospital laundry workers and other nonmedical staff are facing the same dangers during the pandemic, with little recognition. It’s been a radicalizing experience.