There is a Whole Cottage Industry of Doctors Helping Parents Skip Their Kids’ Vaccines
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Gary TaxaliIn December 2014, an 11-year-old visited a Disney theme park in California and afterward got a rash. It was measles, and over the next several weeks the disease spread to at least 136 Californians, as well as people in seven other states and two…
I Was a Successful Journalist When a Doctor First Handed Me Opioids
PeopleImages/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Editor’s note: After reading Mother Jones reporter Julia Lurie‘s work on the opioid crisis, a former journalist contacted us with his own story of addiction. The following is his narrative, in his own words. In order to protect his privacy, we have not included…
Sick. Uninsured. And Begging the Internet for a Lifeline.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days after receiving a diagnosis of stage 4 breast cancer, Marisa Rahdar had to figure out how to beg for her life. “I didn’t want to do it at all,” she recalls. Rahdar is a 32-year-old bartender from Detroit, and she has insurance. Her brother,…
As Diet-Related Illnesses Surge, a New Kind of Pharmacy Dispenses Fruit and Vegetables
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thomas FuchsSix years ago, James Stancil, 62, a former long-haul trucker, decided to move from Iowa back to his hometown of San Francisco to live with his aging mother. There was just one problem: His enlarged heart, high blood pressure, and diabetes made his body so…
A Quick Guide to Legal Pot in California
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For Californians, legal cannabis is right around the corner. But we have questions. And as it turns out, many of you do, too. A couple weeks ago we wanted to know what questions you had about pot, and the responses were overwhelming.…
The Number of Homeless People in America Increased for the First Time in 7 Years
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the first time in seven years, the number of people without a safe, regular place to sleep in America has grown. On any given night in 2017, nearly 554,000 people across the country were homeless, just under a 1 percent rise above 2016 levels.…