A Political and Literary Forum
Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.
Amy Moran-Thomas
Global trade, enslaved labor, and colonial warfare created demands for medicines that would work for anyone, anywhere. That pressure to view patients as interchangeable remains with us today.
Zachary Dorner
An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics.
Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin, C. J. Polychroniou
Ensuring a COVID-19 vaccine is available to all makes both moral and economic sense.
Sanjay G. Reddy, Arnab Acharya
There’s no silver bullet, but local experiments and global experiences can help us control the pandemic.
Natalie Dean
Monarch butterflies may be gone in thirty years. Saving them seems apolitical, but environmentalists have landed in the sights of drug cartels, illegal loggers, Trump supporters, and even clandestine avocado farmers.
Rob Nixon
Huge investors like BlackRock are forcing corporations to take action on emissions. But what does their power mean for democracy?
Madison Condon
In a world unraveled by COVID-19, the brutality of factory farming demands we rethink our relationship to animals.
Troy Vettese
American medicine has long functioned as an elitist institution, putting professional prestige over the well-being of patients and physicians alike.
Marco Ramos, Tess Lanzarotta, Iris Chandler
History shows that outbreaks rarely have tidy conclusions.
Jeremy A. Greene, Dora Vargha
Epidemic waves serve not just to predict but also to persuade. Their special blend of mathematical and moral messaging will shape the future of the pandemic.
David S. Jones, Stefan Helmreich
Rereleased this year in a single volume, Kim Stanley Robinson’s trilogy Three Californias imagines three possible futures for the world writ large through the lens of Orange County, California.
Dayton Martindale
The debate over pandemic response is not only about the facts—including the grim death toll. It's also about the relationship between science and decision-making, where values inevitably play a role.
Jonathan Fuller
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