Health
A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
Occupying Hospitals
From Gaza to Minneapolis, attacks on health care turn spaces of refuge into sites of state violence.
How Not to Do Industrial Policy
Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the U.S. did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.
How Misreading Adam Smith Helped Spawn Deaths of Despair
A Nobel Prize–winning economist reflects on the dire consequences of libertarian economics.
Keeping the Faith
Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.
Is There a Cure for Medical Racism?
From unequal rates of COVID-19 death and hospitalization to biased pulse oximeters, medicine must reckon with the racism in its midst.
Escape from the Closed Loop
Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.
What the AIDS Crisis Can Teach Us About Monkeypox
Harm reduction strategies have the best chance of stopping this disease.
Nine Ways That Capitalism Is Ruining Sex
Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.
After Dobbs
An interview on the post-Dobbs legal landscape—and how the federal government can respond.
Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head
Decades of biological research haven’t improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
Roe Was Never Enough Anyway
It is long past time for law and policy to facilitate affordable and accessible services.
The Racial Capitalism of Care
A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.
How the Other Half Dies
Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.
Selling Hope
A cancer diagnosis reveals how pervasive consumerism has become, infecting even the stuff meant to heal us.
How Medicine Must Change for Endemic COVID-19
To meet the challenge of enduring spread in the years to come, we must prioritize primary care and community health over the profit-driven status quo.
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