
Julia Belluz
Freelance contributor
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Islanders are bathing in rivers contaminated with raw sewage and drinking from condemned wells and hazardous waste sites.


Doctors are finding health problems left over by the storm.


The Department of Health and Human Services is embracing the language of the religious right.


Researchers found there’s little correlation between a woman’s “ovarian reserve” test and her chances of getting pregnant.


Obama’s Clean Power Plan would have averted asthma attacks. Trump wants to undo it.


The White House justified taking birth control away by suggesting it leads to risky sex.


The Las Vegas massacre moved the needle on the “Hedonometer,” a tool that measures happiness on Twitter.


Trump has energized the vaccine skeptics, and that’s dangerous.


From the uninhabitable Barbuda to widespread power outages in the Virgin Islands, islands are limping toward recovery.


The award celebrates the study of the tiny biological clocks in every living thing.