How Big Was the Hammer SCOTUS Just Took to Government as We Know It?
The Supreme Court is an unelected body–there was a time when the justices understood that. Not this court. In their most recent set of rulings, they took a hammer to the fundamentals of American gover...
23 Jul 202452min
Scientists Argue that this Genetic Test’s Results are “no better than a coin flip.” The FDA approved it anyway.
Recently, the FDA approved a genetic test for opioid use disorder despite clear opposition from scientists and the FDA advisory panel that had reviewed the evidence. The case demonstrates the space wh...
16 Jul 202451min
Public health 🤝 Healthcare
To the untrained eye, public health and healthcare are–if not the same thing–then two sides of the same coin. But to those of us who work in public health, healthcare is too often a giant vacuum of he...
9 Jul 202453min
Our Institutions Have Long Covid with David Wallace-Wells
The pandemic didn’t change everything–it just made everything weird. From declining trust in institutions to the growing power of Big Tech on our lives, we are struggling to deal with the world as it’...
2 Jul 20241h
When Racism goes “Systemic”
Racism is among this country’s most persistent original sins. Not only does it pattern access to everything from education to housing to jobs — but infant mortality, cancer, and life expectancy. Abdul...
18 Jun 202454min
Our Mental Health System is Broken
We talk a lot more about mental health than we used to — and that’s served to destigmatize it and promote opportunities to improve it. But that conversation has yet to improve mental healthcare for th...
11 Jun 202448min
Bernie Sanders on a 32-hour workweek, the Long COVID moonshot, and Ozempic
Too many politicians are too beholden to the healthcare industry to propose any meaningful change. That’s not true of the Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Senat...
4 Jun 202434min
Trauma can lead to…Growth?
Trauma is all around us–and the word has come to dominate so much of our conversation about mental health. The common perception of trauma is that it lingers, devastating mental health over time. But ...
28 Mai 202454min
