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Philosopher Karl Popper famously asked how to tell the two apart. His answer—falsifiability—hasn’t aged well, but the effort lives on.
Michael D. Gordin

As more and more doctors awaken to the political determinants of health, the U.S. medical profession needs a deeper vision for the ethical meanings of care.

Eric Reinhart

Colorblind solutions have failed to achieve racial equity in health care. We need both federal reparations and real institutional accountability.

Michelle Morse, Bram Wispelwey
A new “solar homesteading law” could harness rays of sun that fall on roofs and parking lots in cities and advance the aims of energy democracy.
David McDermott Hughes
Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers to other present-day people based on assumptions about race and ethnicity. So what are they actually selling?
Duana Fullwiley
As Big Data tools reshape health care, biased datasets and unaccountable algorithms threaten to further disempower patients.
Rachel Thomas

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust today requires confronting those arguments head on.

Andrew Jewett
COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black communities is just one of many respiratory inequities shaped by systemic racism.
Adam Gaffney

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Diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.

David G. Victor, Charles Sabel

We must reimagine how to make life-saving vaccines available to everyone.

Ravi Gupta
Biden should rejoin the Paris Agreement, but diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.
David G. Victor, Charles Sabel

To ask why COVID-19 hasn’t been deadlier in Africa is to suggest that more Africans should be dying. We need better questions.

Nanjala Nyabola
Waiting to ensure uninterrupted power for everyone as we transition away from fossil fuels will cost too much time—and too many lives.
David McDermott Hughes

Only a bold approach that centers politics can meet the scale of the climate crisis.

Leah C. Stokes, Matto Mildenberger
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
Ensuring a COVID-19 vaccine is available to all makes both moral and economic sense.
Arnab Acharya, Sanjay G. Reddy

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, it is clear that white supremacy sustains the U.S. nuclear arsenal. 

Elaine Scarry
There’s no silver bullet, but local experiments and global experiences can help us control the pandemic.
Natalie Dean
Huge investors like BlackRock are forcing corporations to take action on emissions. But what does their power mean for democracy?
Madison Condon

American medicine has long functioned as an elitist institution, putting professional prestige over the well-being of patients and physicians alike.

Iris Chandler, Tess Lanzarotta, Marco Ramos
Media stories praising online language learning as an inexpensive way to take a “vacation” during COVID-19 have expressed astonishingly little curiosity about the conditions under which gig-economy language teachers labor.
Roberto Rey Agudo, Alberto Bruzos Moro, Yuliya Komska
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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