March 16, 2016
We write out of our shared concern over the current Zika virus epidemic in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in the hopes of making useful interventions. Because of Zika’s adverse effect on fetal development and potential link to Guillan-Barré syndrome, the virus poses serious concerns for public health.
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.
March 3, 2016
So, the inevitable finally happened, Ben Carson finally conceded that he doesn’t “see a political path forward” for his campaign.
—Thomas A. Foster
A National Museum of Women’s History is necessary to correct the long-standing gender imbalance in our national narrative.
March 2, 2016
The lead contamination crisis in Flint provides a tragic object lesson of how much beyond our health care system, the deadly tentacles of unconscious racism reach to create health disparities.