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The Biggest Hurdle to Trump’s Medicaid Work Requirements: The War on Disabled Workers
Mother Jones Sep 26, 2025

The Biggest Hurdle to Trump’s Medicaid Work Requirements: The War on Disabled Workers

Armond Dai has been living with Long Covid since his second infection, in September 2023. In December, his symptoms forced him to leave his job in architectural design; since March, he’s been on Medicaid. Dai, who lives in California, is one of many chronically ill and disabled people who, under new Medicaid work requirements included […]

When Home Isn’t Safe: Immigration Enforcement Meets Housing Discrimination
Mother Jones Sep 26, 2025

When Home Isn’t Safe: Immigration Enforcement Meets Housing Discrimination

This story is published in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. For one California mother, public housing has been a lifeline for her household of five—her two young adult daughters, husband, and young nephew. She could not afford rent without the federally subsidized housing that they all share. It’s also a lifeline for another […]

The U.S. Attacks Cuban Doctors to Punish the Nation for Existing
Current Affairs Sep 25, 2025

The U.S. Attacks Cuban Doctors to Punish the Nation for Existing

Donald Trump came into his second term in office proclaiming his intention to tighten the United States’ grip on Latin America, proudly invoking the Monroe Doctrine. As part of this agenda, one of the administration’s earliest foreign policy moves was to strengthen the brutal, longstanding sanctions against the island of Cuba.