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The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

“As capitalism has invented ever more ways to be miserable, so too has it invented ever more specific ways to ease that misery.”

By P.E. Moskowitz | September 11, 2025

Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza

Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza

“A maligned Muslim people, abandoned by their brothers and dehumanized by the West...”

By Seema Jilani | August 29, 2025

Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir

Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir

Polly Atkin Consider the Danger of Publishers Endorsing Quackery

By Polly Atkin | August 26, 2025

The Fascist History of Yoga

The Fascist History of Yoga

Stewart Home Explores the Influence of Right-Wing Ideology on the Practice of Yoga

By Stewart Home | August 22, 2025

What’s Good? Raymond Antrobus on Deafness, Poetry and Finding Your Purpose

What’s Good? Raymond Antrobus on Deafness, Poetry and Finding Your Purpose

“Poetry helped me, even if it was just a way to temporarily lift or lighten the narrative of the world.”

By Raymond Antrobus | August 19, 2025

How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

Margaret Grace Myers on the Grim Legacy of Ronald Reagan

By Margaret Grace Myers | August 13, 2025

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The Value of Women’s Lives: How Abortion Bans Escalate Domestic Violence

By Kylie Cheung | August 11, 2025

Pregnancy Postponed: Chloé Caldwell on Trying (and Failing) to Conceive

By Chloé Caldwell | August 11, 2025

How Medical Misogyny Impacted the Treatment of Women’s Migraines

By Tom Zeller Jr. | July 30, 2025

Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | July 25, 2025

On the Importance of Holistic Thinking in Combating Addiction

On the Importance of Holistic Thinking in Combating Addiction

Melody Glenn Asks Us to View the Opioid Epidemic Through an Expansive Lens

By Melody Glenn | July 23, 2025

The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir

The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir

Ruthie Ackerman: “We are everything that ever happened to us.”

By Ruthie Ackerman | July 21, 2025

Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

Andrew R. Gallimore on the Alien Power of a Revolutionary Drug

By Andrew R. Gallimore | July 16, 2025

Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

Mickie Meinhardt Profiles the Author of “On Muscle,” on a Surfboard

By Mickie Meinhardt | July 16, 2025

Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | July 11, 2025

On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other

On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other

Laurie Sheck Considers the Plight of Refugee Children

By Laurie Sheck | July 2, 2025

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