Free School Lunches for Everyone
We kept millions of kids fed during the pandemic. Why stop now? By Peggy Chen From her small apartment in Durham, N.C., Marcella Thompson prepares healthy meals and groceries for the dozens of families that…
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The Real Reason Your Groceries Are Getting So Expensive
By Stacy Mitchell Food Fresh is the only grocery store in a rural stretch of southeastern Georgia. It has many five-star Google reviews praising its freshly butchered meats, tomato bar and friendly service. Yet it faces…
As Long COVID Turns Three, Americans Play Disability Roulette
Commentary by Wes Ely While society yawns, impatient to move on from the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans still play disability roulette. About 1 in 10 of the 110,000 people who catch COVID this week in the…
“A Serious Environmental Justice Problem”
Duke University didn’t inform public about lead in Durham parks By: Lisa Sorg Soil at three Durham parks—Walltown, East End and East Durham (and presumably a fourth, Lyon Park)—contain levels of lead as much as…
Want to Fix Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor.
By Eric Reinhart A changing of the guard in US public health is impending—and, with it, a chance to rejuvenate a flailing field. Anthony Fauci has retired in the shadow of one of the worst…
A 12-Week Ban on Abortions Means More Women Will Die
Opinion By Dr. Beverly Gray and Dr. Jonas Swartz Esse quam videri. Our state motto — “To be, rather than to seem” — should encapsulate the values of North Carolinians. We should stand for truth,…
Accessing Abortion in the Triangle
Edited by Carl Hintz Republicans in North Carolina’s General Assembly are pushing through a 12-week abortion ban. North Carolina previously banned abortion after 20 weeks and six days, requiring a 72-hour waiting period, and requiring…
Judge Who Ruled on Abortion Pill Hand-picked by Plaintiffs
By Anne Nelson On April 7, U.S. district judge Matthew Kacsmaryk made headlines with an unprecedented ruling suspending the 2000 FDA approval of the abortion medication mifepristone. The ruling marked the first time a court…
Childbirth Killing Black Moms at a Higher Rate
NC advocates, policymakers discuss solutions. By Jennifer Fernandez Everyone here knew the data: Black women are three times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than white women. And they knew the cause: hard-to-solve…
Who’s Behind NC’s Extreme Abortion Ban?
By Saige Smith NC House Bill 533 – A Total Abortion Ban On March 26, North Carolina Republicans filed the first anti-abortion legislation of the session, and it’s bad. This bill would ban abortion from…