“I am an invisible man… I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids… I am invisible, understand, simply because people...

Beverly’s bipolar disorder began early, and successive crises built up from there. As her mental stability worsened, she saw no other...

Indian Health Service (IHS), the federally-funded health care program for American Indians and Alaska Natives, is the primary source of...

For rural areas across America long under siege by the opioid epidemic, a disturbing trend has emerged: Drug users are showing up in...

Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year would make major changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)....

From Hollywood to Silicon Valley, Americans have long looked west for guidance on what is new and important. It is unsurprising, then,...

The US healthcare system is a terrible value proposition. Compared to peer nations like France, Germany, and South Korea in the...

In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to clean drinking water, and called upon states and...

The United States is in a unique political moment. Today, Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines than in any...

In 2015, Malcolm Bird accidentally cut his one-year-old daughter’s finger with a nail clipper and brought her to the local emergency room...

Though the presidential election grabbed most of the headlines, Donald Trump wasn’t the only big winner on November 8th – marijuana...

This past summer, statues depicting a completely nude Donald Trump popped up overnight in five major American cities. The statues,...

Ryan Lewis had been exhibiting signs of clinical depression for months. Concerned about their son, his parents decided to send him to a...

As spring fast approaches, 42 million American households are beginning to plan and design their gardens. Over the last five years,...

Amid increasing numbers of drug use and HIV/AIDS across the country, public debates about the merits of needle exchange programs (NEPs)...

Americans are fat, and getting fatter. According to the American Heart Association, 78 million adults and 13 million children in the...

Over the past six years, the Obama Administration has drawn government attention and funding toward the problem of America’s food...

When Tia came home from the doctor’s, she was in a panic. Her two children had lead poisoning from tap water. Every time the family...

Organic foods have exploded in popularity since the 1990s. 45 percent of Americans actively seek to include organic foods in their diets,...

Zika has entered the American consciousness in much the same way Ebola did: with a melodramatic flourish and a twinge of impish paranoia....