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Winter 2026
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The Kerala Consensus
The War on Health in Gaza
The Israeli government is restricting access to food in Gaza at the same time as it is destroying healthcare infrastructure. Each process intensifies the lethal consequences of the other.
The True Foucault
The issues most important to Michel Foucault have moved from the margins to become major preoccupations of political life. But what did Foucault actually teach?
Don’t Heroize Pfizer and Moderna
We need to demand that the leaders of rich countries liberate the vaccine from pharmaceutical companies to allow for global production and distribution.
Will COVID-19 Spur a Wave of Unionization?
Workers have been infuriated by the callous treatment they’ve received in their workplaces. Many of them recognized that the most surefire way to get their employers to provide the protection they needed was through collective action.
How the Relief Effort Ran Aground
At each step, poor implementation has weakened the U.S. recovery effort.
Coronavirus and the Surveillance State
The evolution of information technologies will beckon us to expand the powers of governments, especially when we believe they would serve the common good, like during a pandemic. A bit of reflection should give us pause.
The Disease Map of Rural America
In the hardest-hit rural communities, the collective immune system was already fatally compromised. They were deep into a decades-old crisis when the pandemic arrived.
Democracy on Hold
We’ve long heard about a decline in democracy. Canceled elections put this state of affairs into stark perspective.
McDonald’s in the Post–Civil Rights Era, with Marcia Chatelain
An interview with Marcia Chatelain, the author of Franchise—a book about how “stateless people found some comfort in a corporation.”
Science in the Service of Untruth: A Century of Lead Poisoning
From apple orchards in the 1930s to Flint today, lead poisoning—and politicians seeking to cover it up—have a long history in the United States.
The Not-So-Secret Serum
“I guess if Washington Times prints it, it’s not totally baseless?” a colleague tweeted. For the second time in as many weeks, those of us closely following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa had to process the news that another …
