Science

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation.

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

Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.

Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.

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.

The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?

Final response: Humility is more than a personal attitude. It should be a collective practice.

Making the issue a matter of personality traits can distract us from the historical and material origins of our present crisis.

Why do we fail to predict—and even more importantly, prevent—social and political crises?

Combatting the West’s pandemic self-interest requires humanism in addition to humility.

When it comes to bad choices, humility may not be the right solution.

Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.

Nearly two years into a global pandemic, uncertainty has profoundly unsettled both our personal and political lives. In our Fall 2021 book, eleven thinkers consider its scientific, philosophical, and economic aspects.

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

Beyond carbon emissions and safety, the debate must also confront how the choices we make now constrain the kind of world we can build in the future.

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

Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.