Children & Families

Reporter Neha Shastry sits with patient waiting to speak with the abortion provider at Trust Women Oklahoma City.

What I learned from reporting on both sides of today’s abortion debate

CNN reporter Neha Shastry set out to cover the complexities and nuances of America's abortion debate. She ran into roadblocks, reluctant editors and lots of contested facts.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Women's and Maternal Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
In the District of Columbia, a shortage of affordable housing, a hyper-expensive rental market and aging and vanishing housing s

How Healthy Is Gentrification?

In the District of Columbia, a shortage of affordable housing, a hyper-expensive rental market and aging and vanishing housing stock has have tenants battling spiraling rents and housing costs, and have left them at increased risk of getting displaced.

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Poverty and Class
A Traumatic Failure: DC Public Schools Neglect Mental Health

A Traumatic Failure: DC public schools neglect mental health

“I have to meet this guy and have sex with him. If I don’t, then he and his friends are going to rape my little sister,” a student at Frank Ballou High School in Ward 8’s Congress Heights told her teacher.

Environmental Health, Mental Health
Trees and hill in Autumn

What’s at Stake as Rural America Loses Its Hospitals

Rural regions across the country are facing a growing wave of hospital closures, shutterings that can pose huge burdens for those in need of urgent care — and can be a matter of life-or-death in emergencies. Hospital closures come as rural America confronts a series of health crises that go beyond t