The Watergate campaign finance scandals led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Decades later, some say the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.

Avion Simon and his siblings, C.J., and Momo, lost their mother to Covid-19. Science has some ideas about the health hurdles that Covid orphans could face in the future.

A look at how a bias on body size affects care of heavier patients, something the medical community is beginning to recognize, and do something about.

According to experts who monitor the radical right, the white supremacist ideology that police say drove the Buffalo gunman has begun moving from the extremes into the mainstream. This is the fifth episode of a five-part series produced in collaboration with The WNET Group’s reporting initiative Exploring Hate.

An eviction moratorium has slowed filings in cities like Richmond, but it hasn’t stopped them, and Black tenants are at highest risk.

Decades of discrimination in Fresno laid the groundwork for a housing crisis today.

Some cities are trying to help poor children succeed by having their families move to middle-income, so-called “opportunity areas” – an idea that was once politically impossible.

Activists concerned about pandemic-related homelessness are seeking rent relief. In the 1930s, tenants banded together against evictions.

Today, drowning rates are disproportionately high among Black children. What’s being done?

For care in pregnancy and childbirth, Black parents are turning to a traditional practice.

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted racial disparities with roots in the past.

African American women played a significant and sometimes overlooked role in the struggle to gain the vote.

Biased ideas about a link between body size and health have led many people to dismiss unexpected scientific findings.

Politics, public health and a pandemic. What we didn’t learn from HIV.

Dr. Larry Brilliant, who helped eradicate smallpox, says past epidemics can teach us to fight coronavirus.

Newborns today are tested for genetic and immune disorders that might not be apparent at birth. The tests evolved from the treatment of a patient with a rare diagnosis who became known as “the Boy in the Bubble.”