Race

The Minneapolis Uprising in Context

A proper understanding of urban rebellion depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as political violence.

Elizabeth Hinton

Science & Nature

Will Evidence-Based Medicine Survive COVID-19?

The UK government’s ultra-cautious approach to “evidence-based” policy has helped cast doubt on public health interventions. The definition of good medical and public health practice must be urgently updated.

Trisha Greenhalgh

Print Issues

New Book: The Right to Be Elected

What might happen if a woman's right to vote is seen as coequal with her right to be elected? Preorder our Spring 2020 book now. 

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

What Would Health Security Look Like?

Nineteenth-century reformers understood the deep connections between public health and environmental protection. That's why struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.

Sunaura Taylor

Gender & Sexuality

Our Identities, Ourselves?

Adhering to a particular sexual or gender identity may mean abandoning the things that make us most unique. So why has identity become the default for talking about who we are and what we desire?

Mark D. Jordan

Science & Nature

The Case Against Mars

Contrary to the boosterism of billionaires, the need for space colonization must be argued for, not assumed. And the arguments aren’t good.

Byron Williston

Science & Nature

The Totality of the Evidence

As policymakers debate the right response to COVID-19, they must take seriously the harms of pandemic policies, not just their benefits.

John P. A. Ioannidis

Class & Inequality, Politics

When Will Capitalism End?

Rumors of the imminent death of capitalism have often been greatly exaggerated. But that doesn’t mean we must give up on making things better.

Alyssa Battistoni

Politics

How Civic Organizations Are Helping to Fight COVID-19

Nonprofits have proven to be critical links in the nation’s public health infrastructure, but even those with mandates unrelated to health and poverty relief are turning out to be integral to their communities’ survival.

Aaron Horvath, Jean Lin

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Without Women There Is No Democracy

On the hundreth anniversary of suffrage, it’s time for gender equity in political office.

Jennifer M. Piscopo, Shauna L. Shames

War & Security

The Murderous Legacy of Cold War Anticommunism

A new book reveals how deeply the Washington-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.

Stuart Schrader

Politics

Sweden’s Relaxed Approach to COVID-19 Isn’t Working

With few restrictions and no tracing of the disease’s spread, the government is relying upon Swedish character and traditions to see it through the pandemic. But behind this exceptionalism lies a worrying social compact between state and citizen.

Adele Lebano