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Eric Gay / AP Texas Keeps Failing to Convince Federal Courts Its Voting Laws Aren't Racist
This time, judges found the statehouse maps to be intentional racial gerrymanders.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Did Obamacare Increase Voter Turnout?
New research suggests the health law’s Medicaid expansion might have expanded the electorate.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Obamacare Isn't Out of the Woods Yet
Even after the failure of the Republicans’ health-care bill, there are still significant ways Trump and his allies can roll back the Affordable Care Act’s provisions.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Where's the Best Place to Live Under the American Health Care Act?
New data shows just how arbitrary premium increases might be for Americans if the GOP plan becomes law.
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Andrew DeMillo / AP The Trouble With Medicaid Work Requirements
The new Republican provision to allow states to deny health assistance for lacking employment will only make the program worse.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters How the American Health Care Act Leaves Near-Elderly People Behind
The bill cuts the deficit and lowers premiums for the wealthy and healthy by squeezing the poor, old, and sick out of health-care markets and government-benefit programs.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Is the Republican Health-Care Plan 'Obamacare Lite'?
What’s in the House GOP’s new scheme to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act
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Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP John Legend on Underground and the Importance of Empathy
The musician and executive producer of the WGN historical drama discusses the contemporary relevance of telling marginalized stories.
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Brennan Linsley / AP How a GOP Health-Care Plan Could Leave Rural Areas Devoid of Coverage
Leaked draft legislation of a Republican Obamacare replacement shows a policy that might leave many Americans even farther behind.
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Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters A New Tool in a Century-Old Fight for Voting Rights
Residents of the U.S. territories can’t vote in federal elections, so they’re tapping into crowdfunding to try to change that.
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic When Picture-Day Combs Don't Actually Comb
How differences fundamentally shape even our smallest rituals
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Rogelio V. Solis / AP How Voter ID Laws Discriminate
A new comprehensive study finds evidence that strict voting laws do suppress the ballot along racial lines.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Republicans' New Plan to Gut Public Insurance
A proposal from the House GOP to dismantle Obamacare would also fundamentally alter the way Medicaid works.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Seema Verma’s Austere Vision for Medicaid
The nominee for CMS administrator has already implemented a harsh model for the country’s public insurance programs in Indiana.
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Bettmann / Getty How The Blood of Emmett Till Still Stains America Today
A new history of the most famous lynching in the country provides context on how racism continues to work in the present.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters A Political Opening for Universal Health Care?
The winner in the fight between keeping Obamacare and rolling it back might be something else entirely.
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Cliff Owen / AP Republicans Don't Know How or When to Repeal Obamacare
In a debate Tuesday night, Senator Ted Cruz made it clear that nothing is happening yet.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Obamacare’s Unlikely Defenders
The prospect of losing coverage and jobs has jolted a marginalized workforce into political organizing.
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Eric Gay / AP Trump's Favorite Voter-Fraud Activist Hedges His Claims
His work prompted the president's call to investigate the election—but now, he warns it’s too early to draw firm conclusions.
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LM Otero / AP Trump Abandons the Secret Code of 'Voter Fraud'
In telling an anecdote about alleged illegal votes, the president broke one of the unwritten rules of his party.
