Health

Richard Engel, foreign correspondent for NBC news, talks with Rachel Maddow about the balance of power in Syria as he observed it after sneaking into the country from Turkey.

But many reproductive health and human rights activists worry that the summit represents a serious backslide to the bad old days of population control when contraception was deployed as …

The evening after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Wisconsin chapter of the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity held a "Hands Off My …

In rejecting the Commerce Clause as the constitutional foundation for the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Courtu2019s right-wing justices distorted Americau2019s founding narrative, including one made-up view attributed to …

New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania's natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking water supplies.

How a World-Ending Weapon Disappeared From Our Lives, But Not Our World

The City of Oakland is currently debating the possibility of terminating a contract it has with the investment bank Goldman Sachs.

Each time I visit my homeland, Vietnam, I find that many of my relatives have gotten wealthier and progressively fatter, especially their overly pampered children.

The Supreme Court's health care ruling is merely the latest turn in the sad spectacle of American health care reform.

Commemorations are being held across the country this year to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the countryu2019s greatest songwriters, Woody Guthrie.