National sorority Alpha Phi refuses to back Republicans’ Safe Campus Act

The bill would prohibit colleges from acting on reports of rape until a student makes a report to police and is a rival option to an earlier Democratic bill

Republican senator Ted Cruz launches marathon anti-Obamacare speech

Not able to delay proceedings with a formal filibuster, Cruz began speaking out against Obama's healthcare reforms

Republican Ted Cruz blames Democrats for looming government shutdown

Cruz tried to reverse responsibility for the latest budget stand-off in hopes of garnering support from moderate Republicans

Would you let your daughter join the army?

Kayla Williams: As a US veteran, I know that the military has a lot it needs to change for women, but there are also tremendous opportunities

Incarceration: when HIV infection does discriminate

Sadhbh Walshe: Given US prisons' elevated HIV/Aids rates, especially among African Americans, it serves public health to provide treatment

Healthcare reform: I am a cancer survivor in an insurance black hole

Brenda Serrano's pre-existing condition will likely keep her off the insurance rolls if the surpreme court throws out reforms

US healthcare reform cannot be undone, says former Medicare boss

Don Berwick says supreme court cannot turn back the clock on reforms that have already become standard across the US

‘Obamacare’ at the mercy of the supreme court

Kevin Powell: If Americans are promised not just liberty but life and happiness, is there not a constitutional right to affordable healthcare?

Single payer health: it’s only fair

Bernie Sanders: US healthcare is grossly distorted by waste and profit, while millions go uninsured. Americans deserve full universal coverage

What we’re not being told about Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan

Dean Baker: The mainstream media has failed to report that the Ryan plan is a privatisation programme that will hand $30tn to insurers