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Barring a Sharp Shift, Health Insurance Costs Will Skyrocket

Many of the 24 million working and middle-class Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act may forgo insurance if their bills multiply.

by Mark Kreidler

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Known for Its Oil, Texas Became a Renewable Energy Leader. Now It’s Being Unplugged.

By Elena Bruess

The state was to get $400 million for solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back.

Photos, Video, Protests — Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities

By Kate Morrissey

Activists fear the Trump administration will use the rule to cover up misconduct by immigration officials.

Once More, With Feeling

By Erin Aubry Kaplan

The growing “No Kings” street protests aren’t a new phenomenon. They’re the nation’s social conscience, picking up where George Floyd left off.

U.S. Deports Asylum Seekers to Southern Mexico Without Their Phones

By Kate Morrissey

The Trump administration’s deportation flights to the Mexican southern border towns of Tapachula and Villahermosa leave people stranded with few resources.

Congress Could Get Millions of People Off of SNAP by Raising the Minimum Wage, but It Hasn’t — for 16 Years

By Mark Kreidler

1 in 8 people rely on federal food aid that has become a pawn in the government shutdown.

The David vs. Goliath Story of a Ranching Family and an Oil Giant

By Jerry Redfern

They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t.

Despite Vow to Protect Health Care for Veterans, VA Losing Doctors and Nurses

By Marcus Baram

Impact of understaffing, facility closures and waiting times has been “dire” under Trump’s second term, medical workers say.

People With Disabilities Struggle to Secure Accessible Housing After Disasters Like the L.A. Fires

By Daniella Lake

Devastating wildfires in Southern California disrupted thousands of lives, including those of vulnerable people who continue to search for a place to call home.