Steve King Was Saying Insanely Racist Things Long Before Republicans Decided Enough Was Enough
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Iowa Rep. Steve King’s openly racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric has finally caught up with him. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to condemn the congressman, with a final vote of 424 to 1. The vote came just a…
Six-Year-Old Moira is One of the Sickest People in America. So Why is North Carolina Trying to Gut Her Health Care?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A monster snowstorm had just walloped North Carolina, and the city of Greensboro careened to a halt. Families were home building fires, sticking carrot noses in snowmen, sipping mugs of hot cocoa. Dan Smith, though, was worried. When he awoke that morning in January 2018…
In Natural Disasters, a Disability Can Be a Death Sentence
And for many disabled people, getting out of their homes is only the beginning. Shelters often lack necessary equipment and medications for disabled people who do evacuate, like hearing aids, walkers, wheelchairs or ventilators, Ramirez said. The prospect of rebuilding a home that had been built around an individual disability can also be daunting and…
The Supreme Court Said No More Life Without Parole for Kids. Why Is Antonio Espree One of the Few to Get Out of Prison?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the morning of his 47th birthday, his first outside prison in three decades, Antonio Espree wakes up around 5 a.m. It’s a cool February day in Phoenix, still dark outside, and his cousin Marlon Bailey is asleep on a bed about an arm’s reach…
These Haunting Photos Show the Pain of Native Children Ripped From Their Parents
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The truth revealed itself slowly but insistently. In 2015, photographer Daniella Zalcman had traveled to Canada to document a public health crisis among the country’s indigenous people, who had one of the world’s fastest-growing rates of HIV infection. As she interviewed subjects in Saskatchewan, Ontario,…
Vaccine Studies Still Exclude Pregnant Women. That’s a Big Mistake.
Pregnant women stand in line to receive birth kits at a camp for Internally Displaced People in Kibati, Democratic Republic of Congo.Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On August 1, the governor of North Kivu, a province in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, sent out a frenzied…