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Navigating the Dual Nightmare of an Opioid Epidemic and a Global Pandemic

Navigating the Dual Nightmare of an Opioid Epidemic and a Global Pandemic

Maya Alexandri on the Front Lines of Covid-19

By Maya Alexandri | August 4, 2020

Underinvestigated, Trivialized, Excused: On a US System That Treats Rape as Something Less Than a Crime

Underinvestigated, Trivialized, Excused: On a US System That Treats Rape as Something Less Than a Crime

Michelle Bowdler on the Need to Address Rape Culture Head On

By Michelle Bowdler | July 28, 2020

Viewing Literature as a Lab for Community Ethics

Viewing Literature as a Lab for Community Ethics

Maren Tova Linett on the Way We Value Human and Nonhuman Lives

By Maren Tova Linett | July 17, 2020

A Society That Abandons Individual Health Will Never<br> Be Whole

A Society That Abandons Individual Health Will Never
Be Whole

Matthew Ingram on How We Manage Human Suffering

By Matthew Ingram | July 15, 2020

I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

Lacy Crawford on How People Can Let Themselves Be Silenced

By Lacy Crawford | July 8, 2020

The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison

The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison

Jeremy Woody on Life in the State Prison, as Told to Christie Thompson

By Jeremy Woody | July 6, 2020

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How Does a Human Being's Internal GPS Work?

By Michael Bond | June 29, 2020

The (Fake) Language of White Capitalist Feminism

By Leigh Stein | June 26, 2020

What Compels Us to Write About the Pandemic?

By Mariana Enriquez | June 25, 2020

We Need a Diagnostic Metric For Racism

We Need a Diagnostic Metric For Racism

Dr. AC Lynch on How Systemic Prejudice Kills in More Ways Than One

By AC Lynch | June 22, 2020

Going Quiet as the World Goes Loud: On Private Anxiety in a Very Public Pandemic

Going Quiet as the World Goes Loud: On Private Anxiety in a Very Public Pandemic

the people who go in and don’t come out."">"In the back of the ambulance, I thought about dying. I thought about
the people who go in and don’t come out."

By Brandon Taylor | June 18, 2020

How Fringe Christian Nationalists Made Abortion a Central Political Issue

How Fringe Christian Nationalists Made Abortion a Central Political Issue

Katherine Stewart on the New Right

By Katherine Stewart | June 12, 2020

Domestic Violence is a Public Health Issue

Domestic Violence is a Public Health Issue

Rachel Louise Snyder on Its Effect on Communities

By Rachel Louise Snyder | June 10, 2020

Letter From Oakland: Black Motherhood in Sleepless Times

Letter From Oakland: Black Motherhood in Sleepless Times

Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili: "Being a black mother is its own form of activism."

By Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili | June 9, 2020

The Elderly and Covid-19: On the Frontlines of a Pandemic

The Elderly and Covid-19: On the Frontlines of a Pandemic

Part Three of EMT Maya Alexandri's Coronavirus Diary

By Maya Alexandri | June 5, 2020

Remembering Florence Nightingale in the Year of the Nurse

Remembering Florence Nightingale in the Year of the Nurse

Dr. Danielle Ofri on the Birth of the Patient Safety Movement

By Danielle Ofri | June 5, 2020

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