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Health

Rural Dialysis Closure Forces Patients to Travel or Relocate

Early one morning, rancher Mark Pieper left his Hay Springs, Nebraska, home for a routine dialysis session — a trip he had taken three times a week for 3½ years. He had been driving roughly 30 minutes to Chadron Hospital, where each treatment lasted about four hours.

U.S. News

The Story Behind "Discombobulated"

Feeling a little confused, concerned, off-kilter, out of sorts? Sounds like you're discombobulated. It's a fitting word for an unsettling feeling. It sounds formal, maybe even fancy. But it's actually the creation of some good

Health

Stopping GLP‑1s: Many Restart Despite Unknown Risks

It's quite common for people to start on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound, especially as the diabetes and obesity treatments become more ubiquitous. They're designed to treat chronic conditions, so the medicines are

World

Iranian Held in France Returns Home in Apparent Swap

Release of Mahdieh Esfandiari comes a week after Iran released two French citizens held on espionage charges. Iranian national Mahdieh Esfandiari has returned home after being held in France for more than a year as part of what appears to be an exchange of detainees between the countries.

U.S. News

Alien, Monopsony, and Lessons on Rising Inequality

This article first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here . OK, hear me out. I'm about to get into a new book with a provocative argument about why income inequality has exploded in America and how to fight it. But at the center of this very serious economic book is

Politics

Morning Brief: Resignations, Oil Export Limits, Trump-Pope Dispute

Reps. Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales are stepping down amid misconduct allegations, the U.S. and Iran are both blocking oil exports, Trump deletes controversial post amid row with pope.

Politics

Maradona's Childhood Home Reborn as Community Soup Kitchen

The late Argentinian football legend’s childhood home has been converted into a soup kitchen serving those affected by President Javier Milei’s austerity measures.

U.S. News

Chimpanzee 'Civil War' and Lessons About Social Collapse

In the mid-1970s Jane Goodall, after more than a decade observing chimpanzees at Tanzania’s Gombe National Park, recorded something that overturned her earlier impressions: a once-unified community split into two factions that began systematically killing one another.