Donald Trump signs a women's health order for a gutted NIH
Donald Trump created a women's health division at the NIH while cutting its budget, a move that masks systemic failures as female voters leave the party.
By Josie Calloway ·
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RFK Jr. weaponizes distrust to burn down HHS institutions
When the government fails you—when the water in your pipes turns brown or the bank takes your neighbor's house while the CEOs get bonuses—you learn a hard lesson: the institutions…
By Maya Ellison ·
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. trades public health for a political base
The American state is a collection of load-bearing walls. Some are made of treaties, some of sanctions, and some of the quiet, invisible infrastructure of public health.
By Emilio Quesada ·
JD Vance is institutionalizing Trumpism as a permanent fixture
The Republican midterm convention in Dallas wasn't a policy summit; it was a coronation rehearsal.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Trump's vaccine order clashes with AAP and CDC scientific consensus
The persistent, damaging impulse in Washington is to treat complex policy—especially one involving public health—as a matter for political decree rather than scientific consensus.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Trump's order targets CDC authority, dismantling vaccine consensus
The sheer audacity of it all deserves its own line item on a utility bill—a cost that will surely be passed down to the consumer, regardless of how many times they try to…
By Imani Sutton ·
The strange reason flu shots have been so hard to improve
The whole performance around flu shots feels less like public health advice and more like an exercise in regulatory theater.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
HHS proposal dismantles Head Start federal standards for "flexibility"
The language they use—"flexibility," "local decision-making," "removing unnecessary bureaucracy"—is a masterclass in euphemism.
By Imani Sutton ·
Trump says anti-weaponization fund in IRS settlement is ‘dead’ even as he defends it
The whole spectacle surrounding the $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" is a masterclass in smoke and mirrors—a political performance where the only thing being compensated for…
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Senate panel approves CDC nominee, controversial HHS pick
It seems that nothing—not the passage of time, nor the sheer weight of public health crisis, nor the solemn gravity of a committee hearing—can keep the machinery of professional…
By Caroline Ashford ·
'Almost an insult': Republican senator slams CDC over autism, vaccines website
The moment a public health agency begins treating scientific consensus as a negotiable political talking point, it ceases to be an authority and becomes merely a prop in a partisan drama.
By Emilio Quesada ·