Tag: Technology

On the fate of Karl Popper’s idea of falsification.

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.

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust today requires confronting those arguments head on.

We must reimagine how to make life-saving vaccines available to everyone.

To ask why COVID-19 hasn’t been deadlier in Africa is to suggest that more Africans should be dying. We need better questions.

Only a bold approach that centers politics can meet the scale of the climate crisis.

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, it is clear that white supremacy sustains the U.S. nuclear arsenal. 

Huge investors like BlackRock are forcing corporations to take action on emissions. But what does their power mean for democracy?

American medicine has long functioned as an elitist institution, putting professional prestige over the well-being of patients and physicians alike.

The industry’s hidden costs.