Health

When Epidemic Hysteria Made Sense

From a historical view, there was a time when alarm, even a run-to-the-hills psychology, made sense in reaction to a disease appearing on our shores.

  • Claude S. Fischer

My Body Is a Cage

Mixed Martial Arts as Greek Tragedy

  • Jenny Hendrix

Justice Roberts Should Visit an Abortion Clinic

The buffer zone decision is wonderfully logical but also divorced from real experience.

  • Simon Waxman

The Biology of Fatherhood

Men’s hormone levels correlate with their pregnant partners. Some men even experience morning sickness.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

California’s Prisons Fail the Mentally Ill (But They Can Change)

  • Jessica Pishko

Big Tobacco Abroad

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the downside to free trade.

  • Sean McElwee

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Letting Go of Normal

It is easy, but wrong, to see development in terms of ‘genes for X’ or a nature/nurture balance.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

Which Radical Ideas Come True?

Two radical notions in the early 1970s, having a black president and permitting homosexual marriage, have pretty much come to pass.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Risk-Sharing

Early Americans well understood that life and making a living were precarious.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Soft Power in Nigeria

The U.S. is funding development in restive Northern Nigeria, but soft power isn't blunting anti-American sentiments.

  • Ameto Akpe

Obama Got the Law Right and the Politics Wrong

His ACA employer mandate delay was constitutional—why didn’t he say so?

  • Louis Fisher

Gandhi and the Affordable Care Act

He didn’t believe in short-cuts.

  • Glenn C. Loury

A Guide to the Affordable Care Act

Who are you in the eyes of the ACA?

  • Deborah Stone

Your Body, Their Property

Who owns human tissues?

  • Osagie K. Obasogie

The Truth About GMOs

Genetically modified foods are safe for humans and pose no special environmental risk. Yet there are serious policy questions to consider.

  • Pamela Ronald
with responses from
  • Marc Gunther
  • Greg Jaffe
  • Margaret Mellon
  • Rosamond Naylor
  • Robert Paarlberg
  • Nina Fedoroff
  • Tim Burrack
  • Jennie Schmidt
  • Jack Heinemann

The Future of U.S. Health Care

The Affordable Care Act is at once a monumental accomplishment and a sprawling, confusing, Gorgon-headed workaround.

  • Andrea Louise Campbell

‘Obamacare’ Is Constitutional, But …

Pam Karlan on the Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling

  • David V. Johnson
  • Pamela S. Karlan

The Antidepressant Wars

A fierce debate that ignores patients.

  • Sandra J. Tanenbaum

Bodies with Histories

The new search for the biology of race.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

The Cure

Can doctors change how they think?

  • Suzanne Gordon

Small Changes, Big Results

Behavioral Economics at Work in Poor Countries

  • Rachel Glennerster
  • Michael Kremer
with responses from
  • Diane Coyle
  • Eran Bendavid
  • Pranab Bardhan
  • José Gómez-Márquez
  • Chloe O’Gara
  • Jishnu Das & Shantayanan Devarajan & Jeffrey S. Hammer
  • Daniel N. Posner

The Health Care Challenge Threatens All Regulation

 If Congress had voted to provide every American with health care through a national health service, that new law would be safe from constitutional challenge.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

The Worst of the Worst

On supermax torture in America.

  • Lance Tapley

Our Man in Guatemala

An eminent medical historian discusses two major, blatantly unethical studies the U.S. government conducted on syphilis patients in Guatemala and Alabama.

  • Susan Reverby
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