Ester Bloom

My own plan only covered my child as an extension of me for the first two days. After that, he was on his own.

Small businesses are increasingly relying on visual artists to convey that their products aren’t mainstream or mass-produced.

Small innovations are adding up to signal that providers and insurers are interested in saving money for patients.

From financial advice to house-cleaning, plenty of companies sell their services only to ladies. Is this more than savvy marketing?

People are divided over whether personal fundraising is intrusive and vain, or a vital sharing of responsibility.

Mass-market success often leads critics to dismiss even high-minded novels as overly sentimental.

One thing I’ve learned during my Obamacare pregnancy: Sometimes the only way to get quality information in the American health-care system is to be a nuisance.

Corporations love telling Americans they “deserve” fancy electronics and indulgent food.  

The next generation of the movement is (finally) embracing the idea that race, gender, and class can’t be divorced from one another.

The infant-mortality rate in the U.S. is extremely high, especially considering how much people are spending to give birth.