Inside Kelly Brogan’s Covid-Denying, Vax-Resistant Conspiracy Machine
Alt-health meets alt-right in the ‘conspirituality’ movement.
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Alt-health meets alt-right in the ‘conspirituality’ movement.
Matthew Remski Gen Sep 2020 25min Permalink
As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Sep 2020 20min Permalink
On the death of a major league pitcher and its aftermath.
Mirin Fader Bleacher Report Sep 2020 20min Permalink
On losing your Beloved in 2020.
Jesmyn Ward Vanity Fair Sep 2020 10min Permalink
Inside the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, the first Covid-19 hot spot in the U.S., where 46 people associated with the nursing home died.
Katie Engelhart California Sunday Aug 2020 50min Permalink
The Mews, a father-son team of orthodontists, have an unusual theory about the source of crooked teeth — one that has earned them a following in some of the darker corners of the internet.
Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Aug 2020 15min Permalink
For many trans people, getting gender-affirming surgery can be life saving. But a complicated and quickly expanding system can sometimes leaves patients feeling left behind.
Katelyn Burns Jezebel Aug 2020 25min Permalink
Tennessee’s sick and dying coal ash cleanup workers fight for their lives.
Austyn Gaffney The Guardian, Southerly Aug 2020 25min Permalink
Giving birth as a black woman in America.
Naomi Jackson Harper's Aug 2020 25min Permalink
Groups protesting lockdown measures see the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext for tyranny—and as an opportunity for spreading rage.
Luke Mogelson New Yorker Aug 2020 40min Permalink
If something isn’t done now, antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill as many as 10 million people a year by 2050.
Maryn McKenna Boston Globe Magazine Aug 2020 20min Permalink
Far too many county jail inmates are dying from suicide, a cause of death critics say can be prevented with reasonable health care services. The problem? Private correctional health care firms may have a goal other than providing adequate care.
LINDSEY B. KING 5280 Aug 2020 30min Permalink
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom.”
Ed Yong The Atlantic Aug 2020 35min Permalink
All he wants is his own room and a kitchen where he can bake chocolate cake. He dreams of it while he sleeps in tents in parks and under the freeway.
Sarah Ravani San Francisco Chronicle Jul 2020 25min Permalink
A pilot program in Mississippi offers a glimpse of the possibilities.
Katia Savchuk Marie Claire Jul 2020 Permalink
Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Jul 2020 20min Permalink
African-Americans are 75 percent more likely than others to live near facilities that produce hazardous waste. Can a grass-roots environmental-justice movement make a difference?
Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Watching Florida government on the state and local level is like watching two parents bring an alcoholic home after he got kicked out of rehab and deciding that the best course of action is leaving him with $5,000 in an apartment up the street from a dive bar and then going to Cancun for the week. It was on the calendar already, there wasn’t any choice, he looked very healthy at the time!
Jeb Lund Welcome To Hell World Jul 2020 15min Permalink
Sounding a warning on pesticides.
Rachel Carson New Yorker Jun 1962 1h10min Permalink
How do you tell the world you are grieving? In my case, it was a year-long Twitter thread about finding the things that made me feel better.
H.G. Watson Vice Jul 2020 10min Permalink
On the epidemic of deaths in jails.
Dana Liebelson, Ryan J. Reilly Huffington Post Jul 2016 15min Permalink
Notes on Beirut’s broken sewage system.
Lina Mounzer The Baffler Jul 2020 15min Permalink
‘Florida and Ohio, man,’ the barista at the local café said to my husband, when he asked about the tourist trade. ‘People here at least acknowledge that it’s real. But people from Florida and Ohio don’t even seem to think it’s happening.’ Having lived in both places, I believe him: I have long had a theory that the surrealism that has overtaken the political landscape in America can be traced back to the poisoned ground of Ohio Facebook.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books Jul 2020 15min Permalink
How a July 4th meal exposes the coronavirus risk for thousands of US food workers.
Katie J.M. Baker, Ryan Mac, Rosie Gray, Albert Samaha Buzzfeeed Jul 2020 30min Permalink