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Teens are driving the demand for online abortion pills via telehealth – new research

Teens are driving the demand for online abortion pills via telehealth – new research

Teens in the U.S. are obtaining medication abortion pills through telehealth, and young people age 18 to 24 are ordering medication abortion at much higher rates than older adults. Those are the key findings of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal JAMA Health

How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for the US

How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for the US

President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address on Feb. 24, 2026, doubled down on his false claims that the U.S. elections system is compromised. He asserted that “the cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant.” These pronouncements follow the January 2026 FBI seizure of

Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion

Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion

Representational government rests on a simple idea: that the laws the nation lives under generally reflect what the public wants. In the United States, few issues test that idea more than abortion. In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the