March 15, 2016
On April 18, 1943, the plans to build Stuyvesant Town were first made public. The plans called for the construction on an eighteen-block area that could house 11,250 middle-income World War II veterans and their families. How times have changed.
March 11, 2016
Five years on, the excruciating tragedy of 74 elementary students who drowned near the Okawa elementary school in the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011 resonates painfully.
March 4, 2016
There are reasons to see the rise of Zika not as another problem in need of a biomedical fix but as a sign of the limits of biomedical fixes.
February 18, 2016
—Constancio Arnaldo It’s been four years since Jeremy Lin burst onto the global spotlight as a basketball superstar, facilitating a rise in what mass media called, “Linsanity.” This was a… READ MORE
February 5, 2016
—Joseph E. Davis [This piece originally appeared on Social Trends Institute.] Q: The title of your book is To Fix or to Heal: Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits… READ MORE
February 1, 2016
—Alexa S. Dietrich When events that are understood to be tragic happen, like the poisoning of the residents of Flint, Michigan, it is typical for we, as human beings, to… READ MORE
January 26, 2016
—Peter C. Little As anthropologist and disaster studies expert Gregory Button, author of Disaster Culture, recently put it, the unfolding disaster in Flint, Michigan is more than a case of… READ MORE
January 25, 2016
—Carl Zimring “I am sorry, and I will fix it.” Michigan Governor Rick Snyder devoted his State of the State speech to the public health catastrophe in Flint that has… READ MORE