New federal labeling guidelines for the abortion pill deliver a major victory to the abortion-rights movement, and throw opponents of the procedure on the defensive.
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House Veterans Affairs Chairman Blasts Health-Care Commission Member
The VA Commission on Care, the 15-member bipartisan body created by Congress to make recommendations about the future of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), has been meeting for months and plans to publish its findings in June. Until this week, Congress had not interfered with the commission’s supposedly independent deliberations. That all changed on March […]
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What We Can Do about Gun Violence
Incremental changes to existing gun laws could help deter mass shootings and gun homicides.Â
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Oral Arguments Open in Supreme Court Challenge to Texas Law
On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the most significant reproductive rights case to reach the Supreme Court in a generation. The outcome of the case will, to put it plainly, determine whether a woman’s constitutional right to access safe and legal abortion is merely theoretical, […]
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Beyond Flint: How Local Governments Ignore Federal Water Standards
Underfunded and under attack, the EPA has failed to enforce water testing and treatment rules.Â
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Congressional Commission Moves Toward Privatization of VA
The Commission on Care-a congressionally mandated federal body tasked with evaluating alleged shortcomings at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)-is deliberating largely behind closed doors and, according to sources close to the deliberations, may have a heavy bias towards privatization. This is ironic because one of the critiques against the VHA has been its purported lack […]
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The Times’s Sloppy Reporting on Sanders and Veterans Health
On Sunday, The New York Times published a wildly misleading front-page story titled, “Faith in Agency Clouded Bernie Sanders’ V.A. Response.” The gist of the piece was that Sanders, blinded by his friendliness to government agencies, did not acknowledge the VA scandal of long wait times for services until very late in the game. But […]
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Bernie Trolls Hillary in Response to Single-Payer Attacks
As Senator Bernie Sanders’s polling numbers surge in Iowa and New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is going on the offensive. Clinton is attempting to spin Sanders’s longtime support for a single-payer health-care system as a radical idea that would harm the middle class-and one that has no realistic funding source. And it’s quickly turning into […]
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Cecile Richards: Grace Under Fire at Planned Parenthood
Richards faces down attacks that may yet backfire on the right.Â
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Campaign Against Planned Parenthood Decades in the Making
The right’s takeover of the GOP mainstreamed a call to violence.
