This May Be the Most Horrifying Surgery Story You’ve Ever Heard
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The pain from the pinched nerve in the back of Jeff Glidewell’s neck had become unbearable. Every time he’d turn his head a certain way, or drive over bumps in the road, he felt as if jolts of electricity were running through his…
Obamacare Just Won a Huge Election Victory
SMG/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While health care policy played a prominent role in the final month of House and Senate campaigns, voters in a number of states had the chance on Tuesday to vote on the issue directly. That’s because four states featured ballot initiatives to decide the…
Is This “Intensely Political Judge” Holding Off on a Major Obamacare Case to Help Republicans in the Midterms?
Michael Lummus talks to the media about his reliance on the Affordable Care Act outside a courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas.Max Faulkner/Star-Telegram via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Six months ago, Republican state attorneys general and governors from 20 states filed a lawsuit in Texas arguing that the entirety…
The US Has Never Had a Native American Governor. This Idaho Progressive May Change That Tuesday.
Madeline Scott/Jordan for Governor Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At first glance, Paulette Jordan seems like an improbable choice for Idaho governor. She’s a young Native American woman running on a progressive platform in a state that has never had a governor who wasn’t a white man and hasn’t elected…
Marsha Blackburn Tells Voters She’s Fighting Opioids. Her Track Record Doesn’t Agree.
Mark Humphrey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Every death from opioids is heartbreaking,” said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the Tennessee Republican running for senate, in an earnest September campaign ad. Looking straight into the camera, Blackburn talked about new funding for treatment and the need to crack down on “drug makers who flood…
Big Tobacco Is Spending an Insane Amount of Money to Fight Obamacare
A rally in August at the Montana state capitol for a ballot initiative to raise the state’s tobacco taxes in August.Matt Volz/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tobacco companies are continuing to pour money into a state ballot fight in Montana, waging a campaign that could result in near 100,000…