Donald Trump’s pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act threatens to harm the voters who put him into office.
The election of Donald Trump to the presidency reveals the true character of America.
Here’s how public-opinion surveys and election forecasters misread the outcome of the presidential race.
Some counties succeeded in suppressing voter turnout—but there’s much more to the story.
A conversation with The Daily Show host about his first cycle of American politics
The first week of returns for North Carolina show that the conflict over voter suppression rages on.
Political, social, and demographic forces in the battleground of North Carolina promise a reckoning with its Jim Crow past.
Will recent reports about challenges for Obamacare make health reform a bigger issue at the polls?
Maybe.
Nate Parker's film uses cinematic tropes that may obscure the true complexity of Nat Turner’s legend.
Why hasn’t public opinion of the Affordable Care Act matched up with its successes?
The fallout from the storm will further limit access to the ballot in communities where it’s already limited.
The surprising similarities between America’s human and animal health-care systems
Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to allow some incarcerated people with felonies to vote reflects a growing national challenge to felony disenfranchisement.
A new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finds the agency toothless—or even harmful—in addressing environmental justice.
Home-care workers are increasingly vital to the future of our health-care system, but the problems they face are rooted in a racist and sexist history.
The Smithsonian’s new memorial of African American history and culture is at once triumphant and crushing.
We took a road trip through North Carolina to survey its residents’ hopes and anxieties.
Recent setbacks in states’ exchanges show just how hard it is to make treatment both affordable and widely accessible.
The virus’s prevalence in Puerto Rico threatens disaster if Congress cannot pursue long-term action.