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Health

Politics Health

Everything Is Broken

“This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity.”

Alana Newhouse Tablet Jan 2021 40min Permalink

Crime Health

Your Body, Your Self, Your Surgeon, His Instagram

An internet-famous plastic surgeon faces hard questions, and a lawsuit, after building his brand on his patients’ bodies.

Katherine Laidlaw Wired Jan 2021 Permalink

Health

Intimate Odyssey

On modern motherhood and the birth narrative.

Julia Cooke Virginia Quarterly Review Jan 2021 25min Permalink

Health

What the Bay Area Can Teach Us About Fighting a Pandemic

The region’s hyper-local response has lessons for us as we confront the winter wave and begin to distribute vaccines.

Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker Jan 2021 25min Permalink

Science Health

Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us

As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.

Ed Yong The Atlantic Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Health

How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America’s Most Elite Suburbs Apart

In a district where parents are epidemiologists and health policy experts, the meltdown happened one Zoom meeting at a time

Noreen Malone Slate Dec 2020 30min Permalink

Science Health Travel

The Secret Formula

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.

Steven Lance The Atavist Magazine Dec 2020 1h10min Permalink

Health Travel

The Cruise Ship Suicides

Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic unfolded, crew members struggle to cope.

Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Arts Health

These Precious Days

The author’s chance encounter with Tom Hanks leads to a dear and lasting friendship with his assistant.

Ann Patchett Harper's Dec 2020 1h20min Permalink

History Health

The Plague Year

The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.

Lawrence Wright New Yorker Dec 2020 2h Permalink

World Health

To Stay or To Go?

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Business Health

How SoulCycle Lost Its Soul

The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.

Alex Abad-Santos Vox Dec 2020 30min Permalink

Health

Leaving the Grace of This World

A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide

Brad Rassler Outside Dec 2020 Permalink

Health

How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men

They were pillars of their communities and families, and they are not replaceable. To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry.

Akilah Johnson, Nina Martin ProPublica Dec 2020 30min Permalink

World Health

Germany vs. The Virus

While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?

Annalisa Quinn Boston Globe Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink

Business Science Health

“We Are Slowly Being Poisoned.”

How toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes.

Kiera Feldman Los Angeles Times Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Best Article Health Travel

We're Here to See the Great Doomed Thing

A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

Robert Moor Outside Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Health

Tethered to the Machine

For years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way. He needed dialysis to stay alive. He couldn’t miss a session, not even during a pandemic.

Lizzie Presser ProPublica 30min Permalink

Best Article Science Health

How Science Beat the Virus

And what it lost in the process.

Ed Yong The Atlantic Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Health

Doylestown family's emails show a ‘sucker punch’ COVID-19 tragedy unfolding in real time

Over three weeks, COVID-19 delivered “cheap shots.” It took hostages. And it left the Malinowski family with with pain, loss and grief.

JENNIFER PIGNOLET Akron Beacon Journal Dec 2020 15min Permalink

Health

What the Chaos in Hospitals Is Doing to Doctors

The ethical burdens of the ICU during Covid.

Jordan Kisner The Atlantic Dec 2020 30min Permalink

Business Health

Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary

When the business icon died in a fire last week, questions abounded. The answers seem rooted in a Covid-period spiral, where he turned to drugs and shunned old friends.

Angel Au-Yeung, David Jeans Forbes Dec 2020 Permalink

Health

Death at Freedom Square

How could the coronavirus overwhelm a Florida nursing home so quickly?

Leonora LaPeter Anton, Kavitha Surana, Kathryn Varn Tampa Bay Times Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Best Article Health

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.

Michael Hobbes Huffington Post Highline Sep 2018 30min Permalink

Politics Health

How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed Market

Welcome to Toke-la-homa.

Paul Demko Politico Nov 2020 Permalink

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