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Health & Social Policy
Posted inEconomic Policy
Rural America’s Project 2025 Problem
Trump is promising major disruptions for small-town communities. Yet residents still favor him over Kamala Harris’s development and investment approach.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
FTC Sues PBMs for Jacking Up Insulin Prices
The case against Caremark, Express Scripts, and Optum Rx is the first against this element of the pharmaceutical transaction chain.
Posted inLaw and Justice
As North Carolina Sidelines Juvenile Justice Reforms, Communities Step In
Winston-Salem community groups had already banded together to strengthen efforts to help troubled young people in the face of more punitive policies.
Posted inPolitics
GOP Senators in a Bind on IVF Vote Today
Republicans in tough re-election races have not come up with good responses for why they oppose a federal right to fertilization treatments.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
‘Steward Health Are Health Care Terrorists’
A fiery Senate committee hearing promised accountability for hospital looter Ralph de la Torre, but new raids are already under way at the hospitals and the broader health care system.
Posted inTAP
The Limits of Harris’s Family Policy
Today on TAP: $6,000 for newborns and universal affordable child care are great—but don’t speak to many young men.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Meet the Coalition Fighting to Protect Abortion in Florida
Amendment 4 needs 60 percent support to pass. Organizers are fanning out across the state to get the votes.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Anti-Abortion Activists Pushed Amarillo to Help Save the Mifepristone Case
Far-right legal crusader Jonathan Mitchell thought that a local ordinance was key to create standing in the Supreme Court.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Hospital Looter Says ‘Nah’ to His Senate Subpoena
The Steward yacht collector tells Bernie Sanders that testifying next week could jeopardize ‘patient care,’ or something; meets bipartisan contempt.
