Maternal Dispatches with Hollie McKay

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Wanted by The Hague, Welcomed in Brussels: Europe's Taliban Problem
Five years after Kabul fell and the world promised never to legitimize the Taliban, five of its officials walked into EU headquarters: no protests, no…
 • Hollie McKay
What I Experienced Inside Afghanistan As It Fell
Five years ago, I was living in Afghanistan when it fell to the Taliban. Here's what happened.
 • Hollie McKay
The Leading Killer of Pregnant Women in America Isn't What You Think
I’ve spent years reporting from places where pregnant women die in ways the world too often doesn’t bother to count — conflict zones, displacement…
 • Hollie McKay
Who Has the Right? Inside One Surrogate's Fight After Refusing Parents'Abortion Request
The debate comes down to one question nobody in this case agrees on. When a contract, a diagnosis, and a due date all collide, who gets to determine…
 • Hollie McKay
They Had the Drug. They Had the Test. The Babies Still Died.
Congenital syphilis was nearly gone. Then we dismantled everything that made that possible.
 • Hollie McKay
Child Marriage Is Child Rape. Why Has It Been Normalized?
On one occasion in Khost, Afghanistan, several years ago, I sat on the floor sipping tea with brave-faced older women and widows who spoke passionately…
 • Hollie McKay
The Body Count Behind the Victory Lap: America's Shadow War in Nigeria
The United States Africa Command announced that more than 200 terrorists had been killed in coordinated operations with Nigerian forces against Islamic…
 • Hollie McKay

July 2026

The Birth Crisis No One in Washington Will Fix
How a broken legal system is driving obstetricians out of the delivery room — and leaving millions of American women with nowhere to give birth
 • Hollie McKay
The Innocuous Chemicals That Could Kill Your Baby
The shower curtain hanging in your bathroom.
 • Hollie McKay
The Baby Formula Wars: When Science, Law, and Grief Collide
Four mothers in Illinois watched their premature newborns get wheeled into the NICU.
 • Hollie McKay
Looking for the Lost
Ukraine March, 2022
 • Hollie McKay
What No Amount of Field Reporting Prepared Me For: The Miracle of Life, Birthing my Second Child
Last weekend, the night before I went into labor with my second child, I woke suddenly in a cold sweat, recalling the nights I had stood amid the…
 • Hollie McKay
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