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Body & Mind

Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein conveys the simple terror and intoxicating asceticism of anorexia

March 4, 2024 • by Josephine Houman

“I watched my body shrink in the mirror,” Clein writes, “proud to discover how powerful my mind was.” I know the feeling....

Kinships

Living with wrongdoing

February 21, 2024 • by Helga Varden

Hope for the future is only possible if we choose peace by stopping the killing and resist the temptation of avenging heroism....

Disability

Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity

In an excerpt from The Architecture of Disability, the author considers the performance of disability in so-called “nature”

October 25, 2023 • by David Gissen

Challenging the physical inaccessibility of national parks might be reimagined as an opportunity to demonstrate the artifice of American nature more broadly. If disability rights are ultimately human rights, then the ideas presented here suggest new, unimagined alliances....

Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity

Disability

Against Technoableism

In an excerpt from her new book, Ashley Shew rethinks who needs improvement

October 24, 2023 • by Ashley Shew

It should go without saying that we need to center disabled people as experts about disability and technology. Yet if we do, we really trouble some underlying assumptions of the ableist world we’re in. In its simplest definition, ableism is bias or discrimination against disabled people or stigma against the ...

Body & Mind

Health Care Monopolies Strike Back

Three ways big health care systems are fighting new rules and antitrust scrutiny

May 15, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

It looks to me like a case of UNC Health is reading the writing on the wall and trying to get ahead of either court cases that could harm its future power....

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?

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. ...