Access to abortion and other reproductive health care was already inconsistent in the U.S. carceral system. The Dobbs decision will make the situation even worse.
>Opioid industry documents illuminate the cynical strategies that led to thousands of deaths. Can an archive turn the tragic past into a better future?
>How Covid-19 Slowed Basic Research
Battered by the pandemic’s challenges and pushed to their limits, researchers responded with resilience, creativity, and long hours.
>Systematic attacks on health facilities and targeting of health workers have become a go-to strategy of modern warfare. What will it take to end these crimes?
>Preventing Airborne Spread of Covid-19
Why it took so long to acknowledge that Covid-19 is airborne—and what we need to do now.
>Medication abortion or traveling to other states will be options for some. Others will endure unsafe procedures or other costs.
>Injustice Decoded
Public health researchers are working to uncover and correct unfairness in AI.
>New drug targets and tools for identifying promising drugs suggest treatments for Covid-19—and future diseases.
>Their Own Definition of Justice
More than half of IPV incidents aren’t reported—largely because criminal justice doesn’t always provide what survivors need.
>The Wrong List for Kids
Registering kids makes them targets for violence and increases their risk for mental health and other problems—without reducing reoffending.
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