Hannah Levintova

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Hannah Levintova |Melissa Lewis

Sungida Rashid had no intention of taking an Uber to the birth of her first child. She’d never been one to take the easy route, and besides, she wanted to get things moving—and walking seemed the best way to do it. So on an overcast Sunday in October 2023, Sungida and her husband, Nabil Haque, set out from their Boston apartment to St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, the local hospital where Sungida, nine months pregnant, was scheduled to be induced.

Oct 30, 2024 | motherjones.com | Hannah Levintova

There are more than 45 million people with student loans, and many more who are gearing up to go to college at a time when tuition is at record highs: The average annual cost of a private university hit nearly $60,000 in 2024. The next president will have the power to either ease that financial burden or aggravate it.

Oct 10, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Hannah Levintova

ShareFight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The first thing the neighbors on Newport’s Bellevue Avenue complained about was the helipad. The 2-mile stretch of Rhode Island coast has long been a playground for America’s billionaires, lined with lavish, historic mansions. But for as long as most could remember, old money had meant an untouchable kind of peace, not the thunderous noise of a chopper.

Oct 9, 2024 | motherjones.com | Hannah Levintova

The first thing the neighbors on Newport’s Bellevue Avenue complained about was the helipad. The 2-mile stretch of Rhode Island coast has long been a playground for America’s billionaires, lined with lavish, historic mansions. But for as long as most could remember, old money had meant an untouchable kind of peace, not the thunderous noise of a chopper.

Sep 13, 2024 | motherjones.com | Hannah Levintova

In front of a packed room at a Senate hearing on Thursday, longtime nurse Ellen MacInnis recounted working at a Massachusetts hospital owned by Steward Health Care, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital provider. Her voice broke as she remembered the many times she and her colleagues couldn’t give their patients the very best care because Steward insisted on saving money: by laying off staff, cutting resources, and leaving medical supply bills unpaid.