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How Big Pharma Intentionally Misleads Patients About the Efficacy of Their Products

How Big Pharma Intentionally Misleads Patients About the Efficacy of Their Products

Lisa Pratta on Her Decision to Expose the Systemic Corruption Within the Pharmaceutical Industry

By Lisa Pratta | June 12, 2025

“Here is What I Know: A Baby is Born.” On the Wild West of Childbirth.

“Here is What I Know: A Baby is Born.” On the Wild West of Childbirth.

Erica Stern Considers a Traumatic Birth and the Many That Came Before

By Erica Stern | June 9, 2025

Singing For Last Time: What It’s Like to Lose Your Voice—Forever

Singing For Last Time: What It’s Like to Lose Your Voice—Forever

Greta Morgan on Finding New Ways to Express Her Creative Passions After a Devastating Diagnosis

By Greta Morgan | June 5, 2025

Molly Jong-Fast on Human Frailty and Unlearning Erica Jong’s Lessons

Molly Jong-Fast on Human Frailty and Unlearning Erica Jong’s Lessons

The Author of “How to Lose Your Mother” Remembers a Week of Devastating Diagnoses

By Molly Jong-Fast | June 3, 2025

A Place of Healing: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Medicinal Plants of the Adirondacks

A Place of Healing: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Medicinal Plants of the Adirondacks

"If we value the medicine the land offers us so generously, we must become medicine for the land."

By Robin Wall Kimmerer | June 2, 2025

How Agricultural Runoff Contaminated One of Iowa's Main Water Sources

How Agricultural Runoff Contaminated One of Iowa's Main Water Sources

Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty on the Legal Battle to Hold Powerful Polluters Accountable

By Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty | May 27, 2025

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Copaganda on the News: On the Crucial Stories the Media Ignores

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Alec Karakatsanis Calls Out the News Cycle’s Focus on Petty Theft Rather than Its Root Causes

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How the Child Welfare System Prioritizes Autonomous Family Units, and Punishes Disabled Parents

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