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Race, Science & Nature

How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias

Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.

Amy Moran-Thomas

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Social Justice is Good for Our Health

How greater economic equality would promote public health.

Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Gould on God

Can religion and science be happily reconciled?

H. Allen Orr

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Beyond Backyard Environmentalism

The United States is in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of its environmental regulation, one that is as improbable as it is unremarked.

Charles Sabel, Archon Fung, Bradley Karkkainen

Politics, Science & Nature

Review: Books on Euthanasia

Two new collections of essays contribute to the public debate—with varied results.

Jyl Gentzler

Arts in Society, Politics

Silence Is Death

An interview with the Rev. Eugene Rivers III.

Eugene F. Rivers III, Eva T. Thorne

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

The Car As Hero

Has any other industrial product so dominated its time?

Neil Shister

Science & Nature

Skirmishes

Battling cystic fibrosis.

Rosemary Quigley

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

The Big Picture

By E. O. Wilson.

H. Allen Orr

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

How the Mind Really Works

An exchange on Stephen Pinker's How the Mind Works.

Steven Pinker, Robert C. Berwick, Jeremy C. Ahouse

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Problem with Thinking Locally

Markets need to be reshaped to protect the environment, and such reshaping will require political struggle.

Jay Mandle

Science & Nature

Can We Control Disease?

Science’s victory over bacteria, viruses, and other microbes is far from assured—and we may be part of the problem.

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Race, Science & Nature

Race, Genes, and IQ

Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.

Ned Block

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