By Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News Companies accused of recklessly marketing and distributing prescription opioid painkillers are paying roughly $58 billion to settle lawsuits over their role in fueling the addiction crisis. It’s a pot of gold eyed by addiction treatment providers, companies creating the latest opioid-related products, and government
By Rachana Pradhan, Samantha Liss and Kate Wells, KFF Health News Marie Noon takes eight medications a day. One keeps her heart rate from spiking to avoid a stroke. One prevents debilitating headaches. Another ensures she doesn’t retain excess fluid. More than a decade ago, Noon said, she was diagnosed
Army Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, was killed in action on July 17, 2026, during an Iranian attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, the Department of War announced this week. Barely a year removed from her high school graduation, Gonzales is being remembered by her hometown, her
Some books earn a permanent place on the bestseller lists not through marketing muscle but because readers keep pressing them into other people’s hands. Nearly a decade after its original publication, “When Breath Becomes Air” is still doing exactly that, reappearing on this week’s nonfiction charts as a reminder of
Courage, as Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer argue in their new book On Courage, is not a personality trait. It’s a skill — one that can be studied, broken down into component parts, and practiced. That reframing is the engine behind one of the more useful additions to the current
Lisa See has spent decades excavating the buried histories of Chinese women, and her latest, Daughters of the Sun and Moon, may be her most ambitious excavation yet. Set in the raw, rapidly growing Los Angeles of the late 1800s, it’s a novel that insists on being read as both
Some novels ask you to root for a plot. Villa Coco asks you to fall in love with a house, a handful of eccentrics rattling around inside it, and the particular flavor of chaos that only late-summer Tuscany can produce. Andrew Sean Greer, the Pulitzer Prize winner behind Less, returns
Lisa Jewell has built a career on quiet houses that turn out to be hiding something monstrous, and “It Could Have Been Her” gives her one of the quietest, prettiest covers of her career wrapped around one of her darkest stories yet. Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her
Some novels build their whole architecture out of a single, almost old-fashioned habit, and Virginia Evans’s debut, “The Correspondent,” does exactly that: it is told entirely through letters, and it is one of the more quietly devastating character studies to hit best-seller lists this year. Sybil Van Antwerp is a
There’s a particular kind of chaos that only an outsider can cause in a friend group that’s been sealed shut since middle school, and Jenny Jackson spends all of “The Shampoo Effect” gleefully cracking that seal open. Caroline Lash, a Manhattan editor burned out on her career and her mother’s
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