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HHS Officials’ Year in Purgatory Is Ending

Katherine J. Wu

March 31, 2026

a IHS facility in North Dakota

RFK Jr. Is Losing His Grip on the CDC

March 25, 2026

A color photo of RFK Jr. in a suit, in a wood-paneled room, surrounded by other people in suits and lit dramatically by a camera flash

Jay Bhattacharya Might Get His COVID Capstone

Katherine J. Wu

March 5, 2026

Jay Bhattacharya

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Have Its Vaccine Policy Both Ways

March 5, 2026

Dark blue-toned photo of a man in a lab coat wearing a stethoscope and holding a clipboard in front of a bookshelf

Let’s Talk About RFK Jr.’s Workout Pants

February 19, 2026

Illustration of a muscle man wearing jeans.

The Tide Goes Out on Youth Gender Medicine

February 12, 2026

The Only Thing That Will Turn Measles Back

Katherine J. Wu

February 5, 2026

A blue map of the US teeters on the point of a vaccine's needle, against a red background

T-Maxxing Has Gone Too Far

January 30, 2026

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South Carolina Is America’s New Measles Norm

Katherine J. Wu

January 27, 2026

Uncle Sam has white dots all over his face

RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For

January 6, 2026

Cutout black-and-white image of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over a green rectangle.

Rotavirus Could Come Roaring Back—Very Soon

Katherine J. Wu

January 5, 2026

Collage of a photo of vaccine vials and a photo of Paul Offit

RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading

Katherine J. Wu

November 19, 2025

a woman sneezing

The Cleaner Way to Get Ripped

October 17, 2025

Still frames from black-and-white archival footage of two men, each lifting a barbell in their right hand

The HHS Officials Being Paid Six Figures to Do Nothing

Katherine J. Wu

September 15, 2025

A Massive Vaccine Experiment

Katherine J. Wu

September 5, 2025

Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap

Katherine J. Wu

August 23, 2025

A microscope sits inside a teethed trap ready to spring

The Two-Word Phrase Unleashing Chaos at the NIH

Katherine J. Wu

August 19, 2025

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‘You Could Throw Out the Results of All These Papers’

July 23, 2025

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RFK Jr. Is Noticeably Quiet About a MAHA Obsession

Nicholas Florko

July 7, 2025

An illustration of an alarm clock with "MAHA" as the time

An Uproar at the NIH

Katherine J. Wu

June 9, 2025

A diptych of the NIH in gray scale and Jay Bhattacharya washed red

‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

Katherine J. Wu

May 6, 2025

‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’

Katherine J. Wu

April 24, 2025

RFK Jr. speaks at a podium.

RFK Jr. Is Out for Revenge

Nicholas Florko

April 2, 2025

An image of RFK Jr. with his hand in his palms.

The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come

David A. Graham

April 1, 2025

A collage showing two archival photos of a woman making a meal and red and white stripes below it

What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’

Katherine J. Wu

March 21, 2025

Collage of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shaking hands, a bar graph showing an upward trend in red bars and red dots

Dr. Oz Is Now the Grown-Up in the Room

March 20, 2025

Photo of Mehmet Oz at a microphone, with a blue background showing the U.S. Capitol

America Is Botching Measles

Katherine J. Wu

March 7, 2025

Covenant Children's Hospital is pictured from outside the emergency entrance on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

Make Public-Health Officials Stay in Their Lane Again

Conor Friedersdorf

March 7, 2025

Inside the Collapse at the NIH

Katherine J. Wu

February 27, 2025

dark windows , lit windows

‘It’s a Psyop’: Inside Elon Musk’s Empty Ultimatum

Isaac Stanley-Becker and Jonathan Lemire

February 24, 2025

Elon Musk's face in a computer display

The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials

Katherine J. Wu

February 19, 2025

The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started

January 24, 2025

Illustration of a shoe stomping on a broken laboratory beaker

The Animal Story That RFK Jr. Should Know

January 23, 2025

Photo-illustration with a statue of the dog Balto and RFK Jr.

Time-Travel Thursdays

Milk Has Divided Americans for More Than 150 Years

January 16, 2025

An orange-tinted photo-illustration of milk being poured into a glass

The Problem With the Government’s Pansexual Pride Day Post

Conor Friedersdorf

December 10, 2024

Image of hands holding a pride flag, bisexual pride flag, transgender flag, and pansexual flag

RFK Jr. Is in the Wrong Agency

Nicholas Florko

December 3, 2024

RFK Jr frowning in a crowd