South Dakota
Anti-Trans Bills Are Wildly Unpopular. But Here’s Why the GOP Keeps Passing Them.
A new poll shows the majority of Republicans don’t support bills targeting trans student athletes. But dig a little deeper, and the story gets more complex.
Lawmakers Who Attack Trans Kids in Sports Don’t Know of Any Trans Kids In Sports
“It starts to look like the project is not about protecting women and girls in sport but rather stopping young people from being trans at all.”
South Dakota Voters Said Yes to Legal Weed. This Judge Threw It Out.
A judge threw the voter-approved legalization out on a technicality.
The U.S. Is Having One of Its Worst Coronavirus Weeks Since the Pandemic Began
The president said at Thursday's debate that the country is "rounding the corner." There were more than 75,000 new cases on Thursday.
How a Pharma Giant Flooded the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation With Opioids
Exclusive data shows drug distributor McKesson supplied the vast majority of painkillers to Native American communities across the U.S. during the opioid epidemic.
This Depressing Concert Lineup Is What We Deserve in 2020
If you've been hoping to see Trapt and Buckcherry on the same bill during a deadly global pandemic, you're in luck!
Celebrating July 4th Like This Isn't a Pandemic Will Cost Lives
Forty states are seeing their case numbers rise. Maybe rethink the family BBQ this weekend?
South Dakota's Official Coronavirus App Shows Limits of Contact Tracing Tech
Multiple users of South and North Dakota's app say it hasn't properly recorded their location data.
Smithfield Foods Is Blaming 'Certain Cultures' for the Coronavirus Outbreak at Its Own Plant
“Living circumstances in certain cultures are different than they are with your traditional American family,” a spokesperson said, noting the plant’s “large immigrant population.”
What It's Like to Get an Abortion in South Dakota
There's only one clinic left in the state and people have to wait 72 hours before they can have an abortion—not including weekends or holidays.
8 States Are Trying to Make the Medical Treatment of Trans Kids a Crime
Getting medical care that trans and nonbinary kids need is already hard. In several places, it could get even more difficult.
The Keystone Oil Spill No One's Talking About Will Be Nearly Impossible to Clean Up
The pipeline spilled half an Olympic-sized swimming pool's worth of particularly dirty oil into North Dakota's wetlands.