The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion

Two people participate in an anti-abortion protest. One person holds a sign that reads, "I am the Post-Roe Generation," while the other, part of a broader campaign, holds a circular sign saying, "#DismantleRoe." They stand in front of a collage featuring contraceptive pills and Plan B packaging.

Now that the fall of Roe v. Wade has ended the constitutional right to abortion, many in the religious right have a new goal: undermining trust in, and limiting access to, hormonal contraception – including the pill. Credit: Photo collage by Sarah Mirk for Reveal. Photo credits: SSPL, Justin Sullivan, and Drew Angerer via Getty…

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Stuck in place: How older adults end up trapped inside their own homes

Betty Gray, a black woman in her 70s with highlighted hair sits on a couch by the front door of her apartment in Berkeley.

by Anne Marshall-Chalmers. (Pictured above: Betty Gray in the Berkeley apartment where she had been confined since taking a bad fall in February. Katie Rodriguez/ UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program) This story was originally published in The San Francisco Chronicle on September 24, 2022. Seven months ago, Betty Gray could climb the 11 inside steps…

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Tracked: How colleges use AI to monitor student protests

An illustration in black and green of a person sitting at their desk facing a large monitor.

By Ari Sen & Dereka K. Bennett This story was originally published in The Dallas Morning News on September 20, 2022. This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Illustration by Michael Hogue. The pitch was attractive and simple. For a few thousand dollars a year, Social Sentinel offered schools across the country sophisticated…

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How to keep older adults safer during heat waves? Give them housemates.

Javier Garcia is standing in a blue shirt placing a kitten-print pillow under Josette Paoni’s head while she sits in a chair with her head down and eyes closed.

(Javier Garcia places a pillow under Josette Paoni’s head. Courtesy of Jamila Chakri / La Logitude) In France, a deadly heat wave gave rise to an intergenerational housing movement. By Sofie Kodner. This story originally appeared in Grist online on September 13, 2022. For more than three decades, 84-year-old Josette Paoni lived alone in a…

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When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home

An illustration of someone's arm reaching up from a hospital bed in a dark room, light is coming in through the shut curtains

After an investment firm bought St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, in Richmond, Virginia, the company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of COVID-19. By Yasmin Rafiei Illustration by Jo Zixuan This story appeared in the New Yorker on August 25, 2022. When St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, a brown-brick…

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In Climate-Driven Disasters, Older People and the Disabled Are Most at Risk. Now In-Home Caregivers Are Being Trained in How to Help Them

Search and rescue team and a person in scrubs help transfer three older women in to a van, in the background smoke from the Camp fire can be seen as the Feather River hospital burns behind them.

A pilot program in California is offering tools and emergency response training to caregivers, who often find themselves on the front lines of wildfires, hurricanes or other natural disasters. (Search and rescue teams scramble to evacuate patients as the Feather River Hospital burns during the Camp fire in Paradise, California, on Nov. 8, 2018. Credit:…

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