Social Justice Hollywood’s Writers Gear Up for Another Strike Television’s golden age hasn’t been so rosy for scribes, whose union is stuck in disagreements with major studios over health care and wage increases. Jack Denton
News in Brief Jeff Sessions Is Throwing the Brakes on Criminal Justice Reform This summer marks nearly three years not only since the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New… Jared Keller
News in Brief Five Things You Need to Know About America’s Fentanyl Epidemic Fentanyl, the painkiller that’s more powerful than morphine, oxycodone, and heroin, has become an especially worrisome chapter in… Francie Diep
News in Brief Cosas del Estado: How Immigration Raids Lead to an Avoidance of Care Since Donald Trump took office on January 20th, 2017, communities throughout the United States have braced themselves for… William D. Lopez
Economics Over 730 Companies Join the List of Vendors Interested in Trump’s Border Wall Customs and Border Protection will now sift through those vendors’ proposals. Morgan Baskin
News in Brief Tom Price’s $150,000-Plus Stock Windfall Tom Price doesn’t appear to have suffered a financial hit when he fulfilled his pledge to sell off… Robert Faturechi
Economics These Charts Illustrate Women’s Struggle for Equal Pay In honor of Equal Pay Day, a look at the progress still to be made. Dwyer Gunn
News in Brief There’s a New Health-Care Proposal in Town Yesterday, reports emerged that the White House and the Freedom Caucus have re-started negotiations on Obamacare repeal-and-replace after… Dwyer Gunn
News in Brief How States’ Medicaid Policies Expose Poor People to a Deadly Painkiller Of all the prescriptions doctors wrote for opioid painkillers in 2014, only 1 percent were for methadone. Yet… Francie Diep
News in Brief Paying for Health Care With Trees: A Win-Win for Orangutans and Communities “I’m a dentist by training,” says Monica Nirmala, executive director of Indonesian non-profit Alam Sehat Lestari. The name… Claire Salisbury