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Public Health

After We Wash Our Hands, What Do We Do Next?

The racist structure of international relations condemns countries like Haiti to cycles of epidemics

May 3, 2023 • by Guilberly Louissaint

Guilberly Louissaint writes about the the racist structure of international relations that condemns countries like Haiti to epidemics....

After We Wash Our Hands, What Do We Do Next?

COVID-19

Science and the COVID Epidemic in India

“The past as mnemonic and footnote always tempers our sense of innovation in science policy”

May 2, 2023 • by Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar

Lockdowns reflect the arbitrariness of the state, an absence of sociological literacy about urban-rural differences, a sense of management as control without the nuances of social science that the diversity of India desperately needs....

Sports

Inside the Sports Subsidy Industrial Complex

Phony numbers, huge conflicts of interest, and bad journalism

May 1, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

And that’s the crux of it: stadium boosters always trot out these outlandish economic impact studies to justify taxpayer investments that never pay off....

Inside the Sports Subsidy Industrial Complex

Body & Mind

When Medicine Turns Capital

An interview with physician Victor Roy on his newly released book Capitalizing a Cure

April 17, 2023 • by Victor Roy and Emma Pirnay

Emma Pirnay interviews Victor Roy about his newly released book, Capitalizing a Cure and uncovering the capitalized pharmaceutical industry....

Body & Mind

Aging Can Bring Wisdom or Not—It Depends on How You Live Your Life

A dancer’s perspective

April 17, 2023 • by Jan Erkert

Growing older is a constant dance between how we feel about our age, how we judge other people, and how we are perceived by others....

Aging Can Bring Wisdom or Not—It Depends on How You Live Your Life

Body & Mind

The National, Bipartisan Loathing of Hospital Monopolies

State legislators of all political leanings are fed up

February 16, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

The United States, rather famously, has the highest health care prices in the developed world. And one of the chief drivers behind that is high hospital prices: hospitals receive $1 in $3 spent in the United States on health care, and they're more profitable than other notorious health care sectors such as insurers or ...

The National, Bipartisan Loathing of Hospital Monopolies

Psyche

Understanding Myself Wasn’t All It Was Cracked Up to Be

A psychiatric diagnosis can be a relief—until it gives you other problems to solve

February 7, 2023 • by Josephine Houman

If my ADHD had been diagnosed earlier, my psychiatrist explained, the medication would have worked....

Understanding Myself Wasn’t All It Was Cracked Up to Be

Activism

Beyond Pro-Choice/Pro-Life Binaries

An excerpt of Repealed: Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights

February 6, 2023 • by Camilla Fitzsimons and Sinéad Kennedy

Abortion became illegal in Ireland in 1861 as part of the United Kingdom and Great Britain’s Offences Against the Person Act. But while abortion might not have been talked about much in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was happening. ...

Sports

Even If She Never Hits Another Ball, Serena Williams Is the GOAT

A conversation with historian Tera Hunter about the greatest woman ever to play the game of tennis—what she overcame, and where she is going—and why Serena’s legacy is intertwined with sister Venus

August 15, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, classism, etc. are all an unfortunate part of sports, which are a reflection of all that transpires in the rest of society. Some sports are worse than others, however. Tennis is an elite country club game that has been reluctant to open up to plebeians—all of ...

Even If She Never Hits Another Ball, Serena Williams Is the GOAT

Psyche

An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Rainesford Stauffer on young and emerging adulthood

April 12, 2022 • by Rainesford Stauffer

Young adulthood doesn’t exist in a vacuum: Systemic problems do impact how, or whether, young people meet the so-called milestones of young adulthood....

An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

COVID-19

Habermas on the Legitimacy of Lockdown

Habermas argued that the state’s duty to protect life outweighed all individual rights. His critics accused him of authoritarianism.

February 23, 2022 • by Peter J. Verovšek

Jürgen Habermas recently argued that the pandemic measures of the German government hadn’t gone far enough. To weigh the state’s duty to protect life against other rights and freedoms was unconstitutional, he warned. In the ensuing controversy, critics accused him of authoritarianism. ...

Democracy

The Phantom of the “Greatest Generation”

“Citizen soldiers” of America, unite!

January 26, 2022 • by Mitchell Abidor

With the greatest generation serving as their antithesis, it has become de rigueur to mock and attack the baby boomers: spoiled children of fathers infinitely better than they. But whatever the errors and failings of the post-war generation, it rose up against war and racism and stifling rules, all of ...