The Health Divide: COVID boosters for uninsured at risk; women of color report mistreatment in maternity care; elders, and more
The Biden administration is rushing to finalize a $1.1 billion bridge program to provide free COVID-19 vaccines for uninsured and underinsured people in time for the release of new boosters, report Adam Cancryn and David Lim at Politico.
The ripple effects of abortion restrictions
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization a year ago has reshaped reproductive health care across the U.S., with abortion access now banned, severely restricted or unavailable in nearly two dozen states.
Newsom-DeSantis debate would be good for voters — and two ambitious politicians
Never mind the Republican presidential debate Wednesday. The more fascinating faceoff will likely be between the haggling governors of California and Florida in November.
Georgia’s indictment of Trump is a legitimate probe of a dangerous demagogue
Although it was expected, the indictment by a Fulton County, Ga., grand jury of Donald Trump and 18 others is still a wrenching moment — another one — for American democracy. As with the federal indictment that also grew out of Trump’s outrageous attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president is presumed innocent until proven guilty as are the other defendants.
Oprah Winfrey beclowns herself on Maui
In the Democrat tradition of never letting a crisis go to waste, Oprah Winfrey demonstrated her lack of understanding of the Aloha spirit.
