Attacks on Public & Democracy

“We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.” We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administration’s near-total dismantling of USAID. Gawande, the head of global health at USAID during the Biden administration, is featured in the short film Rovina’s Choice, filmed at a refugee camp at the border between Kenya and South Sudan earlier this year. We play an excerpt from the film and discuss the impact of USAID cuts on humanitarian crises around the world. Gawande says hundreds of thousands of deaths have already occurred as a result of the loss of aid. “We’re seeing early deaths, like the malnutrition cases, and then we’ll see the wave that’s more to come.”

Maine Family Planning’s closures are among the first visible signs of what health leaders call the biggest setback to reproductive care in half a century

Lately, I’m hearing way too damn much about the anti-American Donald Trump running for a third term in the office he disgraces on an hourly basis — and it needs to stop right now.We are not even 10 months into this second reign of terror, and have more than enough to worry about without spending nee...

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SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

The US Supreme Court is reportedly set to gut core provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a landmark law that prohibited racial

Rachel Cleetus — the policy director with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists — recently wrote in the organization's blog "The Equation" that the "extreme harms" caused by President Donald Trump and his administration "puts us all in danger," and argued it's time to "...

Like public school teachers generally, Randi Weingarten is a big fan of America and what she calls “American democracy.” She deeply believes in this country’s Constitutional processes—free elections, the Bill of Rights, checks and balances, everyday civic participation, and social institutio...

Airports in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle and elsewhere cite laws barring partisan political content at TSA checkpoints

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.

How could corpus analysis quantify politicized language shifts and their effects on awards, citations, and time-to-impact?

MAGA are trying to hide their excitement for the government shutdown. Order our new book, join our Substack, shop our merch, and more by clicking here: https...

Brown and MIT among nine schools told to back conservative views or risk losing federal support, sparking free speech fears

The ladies are joined by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to talk about Trump's weaponized government shutdown. Order our new book, join our Substack, shop our merch, a...

DOJ officials have sued six more states to demand sensitive voter data.

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