Sarah Bufkin

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control reported that three of the 11 people who have contracted the plague in the United States had died. Rather frighteningly, the overall disease incidence rate is higher than usual. Between 1970 and 2012, the…

More than a year out from the election proper, Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is raking in millions in small-scale donations — more than any other candidate in the 2016 contest thus far. Sanders, who appears on…

Human rights activists and former President Jimmy Carter announced last week that he has four cancerous lesions on his brain, provoking an outpouring of support from his native state of Georgia, the country he ran for four years, and the world that…

A former Virginia cop has been indicted on murder charges for shooting John Geer, an unarmed man, in the doorway of his own home in August 2013. According to at least four officers on the scene at the time, Adam Torres fired a single shot without…

This week, the Missouri state house discussed implementing a dress code specifically for interns as a means of combating sexual harassment in the Jefferson City legislature. Yeah, you read that right. After two lawmakers resigned following…

Over two weeks in mid-July, at least five black women were found dead in police custody. First, after a routine traffic stop turned violent, 28-year-old Sandra Bland was found hanging in a Texas jail cell on July 13 under mysterious circumstances.…

Almost half of the more than 10,000 firefighters combating California's wildfires are prison inmates. Trained and deployed by California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the inmates are on the front lines against some of the year’s…

In a tongue-in-cheek move to fix his state's looming budget shortfall, an Alabama state senator has started a GoFundMe account to bring in revenue — to the tune of $300 million. State Sen. Paul Sanford from Huntsville, Alabama, said that he opened…

With the first debate of the 2016 GOP presidential primary looming, 10 candidates will set out to, among other things, defend their conservative credentials on women’s rights and healthcare. But just which kinds of women voters are Republicans…