During his confirmation hearings, Robert F Kennedy Jr, now Head of US Health and Human Services (HHS), gave repeated reassurances to senators concerned about his credentials and beliefs. He promised t...

This Viewpoint examines US states’ attempts to address the consequences of abortion bans by clarifying them in various ways, a form of legislative interference that further limits access to reproducti...

The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.

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Time for non-violent civil disobedience

Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

He wants America to be ignorant because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny

“I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.

Political scientist Adam Bonica noted last Friday that Trump and the administration suffered a 96% loss rate in federal courts in the month of May.

The Trump administration has systematically stripped funding from research into the health of L.G.B.T.Q. people. Benjamin Mueller, a reporter covering health and medicine for The New York Times, descr...

Why do these people believe that ignorance is strength?

The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.

In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by “administrative error” to the terrorist p...

On April 9, 1865, General Robert E.

He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.

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