Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.

But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.

Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.

Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.

Harm reduction strategies, like those pioneered by queer men of color, have the best chance of stopping this disease.

Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.

A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

Physicians have been fighting for health justice for decades. To succeed, we need practical models for collectively remaking our systems of care.

The right to reproductive health and agency is a compelling state interest.

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

Concerns about long-term side effects have helped fuel vaccine hesitancy. An immunologist explains why we can be confident in vaccine safety.

“I was living in fast-forward, trying desperately to have a life before I died.” A veteran AIDS activist recalls living in the Bay Area during the 1990s, the queer people of color usually left out of the epidemic’s history, and how the decade taught him to value endings.

If we want to address vaccine hesitancy in the health care system, we must treat its lowest paid workers better.

The pandemic increased demand and possibilities for automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.

Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.

As more and more doctors awaken to the political determinants of health, the U.S. medical profession needs a deeper vision for the ethical meanings of care.

Colorblind solutions have failed to achieve racial equity in health care. We need both federal reparations and real institutional accountability.

COVID-19 is not just a public health crisis. It is also a crisis of public reason.

Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.

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.