Tag: health

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Covid Complacence

Rafia Zakaria

April 24, 2020

A doctor in Florida describes current battles against the coronavirus.

A Transition on Pause

Mark Van Streefkerk

April 20, 2020

Covid-19 has only laid bare that the “way things were before” was already a crisis for transgender people. 

Mad Dogs and Medical Bills

Ann Neumann

January 24, 2020

The high price of taming the world's most deadly disease

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 26, 2018

Pass Go, Collect $2.8 billion. This week, Amazon inched us further into our nightmarish future with the opening of Amazon Go: a grocery store without checkout lines or cashiers but chock full of cameras that sense, record, and charge you automatically for every impulse ...

A Waiting Room of One’s Own

Gillian Terzis

May 08, 2017

Forward, the startup touted by Bloomberg as “The Doctor’s Office of the Future,” seems oddly squeamish about the business it’s in.

Plus-Size Proletarian

Amber A’Lee Frost

March 01, 2017

Mind and body cannot be divided (until we’re all uploaded to the cloud or transplanted into sexy robot bodies, of course). So while your guilt is an understandable result of our terrible atomized neoliberal society, it is ultimately a malfunction.

Battles We Have Fought Before

Sarah Jaffe

February 24, 2017

I see someone like Elizabeth Warren, I see someone like Zephyr Teachout, I see someone like Kshama Sawant, I see candidates that can speak out forcefully and directly and link economic interests and racial interests and class interests and get people to stand together. There are ...

Flu in the Face

A. S. Hamrah

February 04, 2016

Anyone who spends time in enclosed public spaces is barraged with images from television news, most often broadcast from the default network, CNN. We glimpse these images, with the sound down, for only seconds at a time as they bounce, germ-like, from corner to corner, chasing ...