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Stephanie Engel

Stephanie Engel (MD) is a psychiatrist in private practice in Cambridge, MA. and is a consultant in global mental health.
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Biden’s Made-for-TV Inauguration

The spectacle of unity required a camera angle that made the razor wire and the thousands of heavily-armed National Guard members invisible

January 28, 2021 • by Stephanie Engel
Ultimately, though, what troubled me most profoundly was what we didn’t see. ...

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