Postpartum Psychosis or Cold-Blooded Murder? A Mother on Trial
Postpartum psychosis is rare, fast-moving, and treatable, so why does the U.S. have only five hospital units built to catch it?
Maternal Dispatches with Hollie McKay
Frontline reporting on maternal health, conflict, and human rights — from the mother's lens.
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Wanted by The Hague, Welcomed in Brussels: Europe's Taliban Problem
Five years after Kabul fell and the world promised never to legitimize the Taliban, five of its officials walked into EU headquarters: no protests, no denial, just visas and a handshake. What changed?
What I Experienced Inside Afghanistan As It Fell
Five years ago, I was living in Afghanistan when it fell to the Taliban. Here's what happened.
The Leading Killer of Pregnant Women in America Isn't What You Think
I’ve spent years reporting from places where pregnant women die in ways the world too often doesn’t bother to count — conflict zones, displacement camps, collapsing health systems.
Who Has the Right? Inside One Surrogate's Fight After Refusing Parents'Abortion Request
The debate comes down to one question nobody in this case agrees on. When a contract, a diagnosis, and a due date all collide, who gets to determine what happens next? Is it the woman carrying the bab
They Had the Drug. They Had the Test. The Babies Still Died.
Congenital syphilis was nearly gone. Then we dismantled everything that made that possible.
Child Marriage Is Child Rape. Why Has It Been Normalized?
On one occasion in Khost, Afghanistan, several years ago, I sat on the floor sipping tea with brave-faced older women and widows who spoke passionately about the necessity of women teachers and students.
The Body Count Behind the Victory Lap: America's Shadow War in Nigeria
The United States Africa Command announced that more than 200 terrorists had been killed in coordinated operations with Nigerian forces against Islamic State fighters in the country’s northeast, among them Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, whom American officials described as the terror group’s director of global operations and the most active terrorist in the world.
The Birth Crisis No One in Washington Will Fix
How a broken legal system is driving obstetricians out of the delivery room — and leaving millions of American women with nowhere to give birth
The Innocuous Chemicals That Could Kill Your Baby
The shower curtain hanging in your bathroom.
The Baby Formula Wars: When Science, Law, and Grief Collide
Four mothers in Illinois watched their premature newborns get wheeled into the NICU.