Friday, February 20, 2026

The resistance to health care repeal rolls on

The effort to kill Obamacare is not complete. Expect vigorous protests throughout August.

Study: Children have better nutrition when they live near forests

The data show that forests aren't just correlated with improvements in people's diets. We show that forests cause these improvements."

Here are the worst abortion restrictions conservative state lawmakers passed this year

These included everything from bans on the safest, most common form of second-trimester abortion to laws that would outright re-criminalize abortion.
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Navajo Nation suffers third-highest COVID-19 infection rate in US with limited healthcare & water

“The level of inequity that you’re seeing … it’s part of this pattern.”

Is COVID-19 causing a spike in addiction rates?

Addiction is hard, especially in tough world or life circumstances, but with support from near or far, you can make it through.

Free as you can afford to be

GOP leaders want to protect your "freedom" to be poor, powerless, sick, and uninsured.

Trump reinstates old abortion restrictions cutting off U.S. funding to international groups that offer...

Organizations receiving funding cannot even counsel pregnant women on the option of abortion, or else they risk losing all U.S. funding.

I couldn’t go to Standing Rock, so I closed my bank accounts instead

There are 38 banks supporting the Dakota Access pipeline. I found out mine was one of them.

A hospital’s secret coronavirus policy separated Native American mothers from their newborns

Pregnant Native American women were singled out for COVID-19 testing based on their race and ZIP code, clinicians say. While awaiting results, some mothers were separated from their newborns, depriving them of the immediate contact doctors recommend.

Countries introduce legislation to ban or restrict vapes

Vaping has become popular among youth, but comes with an environmental impact.