Molly Osberg

@molly__o

Bulk-buying beans, potassium iodide, and guns won’t save you from Vladimir Putin being crazy. They’re just a way to shore up Americans’ individualist delusions.

The former Trump adviser’s new scheme, America First Legal, has targeted health guidelines for antibody drugs.

A major health system, ThedaCare, argued in court that its workers were so essential they couldn’t leave.

Borrowers are excluded from federal rulemaking committees for having a “conflict of interest,” while conservative-funded think tanks are cited as authorities by a credulous press.

The last-ditch response is being foisted upon a critically underfunded public institution.

Ten long months before the midterms, the mom vote is again the subject of Democrats’ anxiety.

The CDC director is an accomplished scientist and doctor, but her job is necessarily political—and she’s bad at politics.

The New York City mayor’s sloganeering comes up against a reminder of the real city that he has to run.

Frontline workers, including teachers, are just supposed to carry on in spite of the government’s failure to manage the pandemic.

A $26 billion deal is now in local governments’ hands. It could go to harm reduction or toward police and politicians’ pet concerns.

Rather than getting higher pay or more staff, medical workers are being forced to endure looser guidelines that put everyone at greater risk.

The endless pandemic is being framed as an economic liability more than a matter of public health.

A parallel health care market of direct-to-consumer primary care and medical apps has become further entrenched through the pandemic.

With Build Back Better stalled, the final payments went toward savings, childcare, and a few Christmas gifts.

The explosive growth of Amazon warehouses accompanied its burn-and-churn approach to the workforce. No wonder it’s so hard to find a worker who remembers a tornado drill.

Delos famously installed vitamin C showers in Leonardo DiCaprio’s condo. Now it’s selling “wellness solutions” for low-income housing and earning millions in public funds to put air purifiers in schools.

Each night, volunteers spread out through courtrooms to try to keep judges honest.

As the Oxford High School shooter’s parents were charged, a court ruled in another case that gun manufacturers still can’t be held accountable.

As the Supreme Court hears arguments over Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, the director of a clinic in the South reflects on the damage already done.

Nationalist vaccine hoarding and pharmaceutical companies’ profit motives have contributed to the endless pandemic.