Is It Fair to Ask the Internet to Pay Your Hospital Bill?
Looking at the ethical issues that come with crowd funded healthcare.
‘The residents of Ferguson do not have a police problem. They have a gang problem’
Ta-Nehisi Coates on what the Justice Department’s investigation revealed about Ferguson police. “The ‘focus on revenue’ was almost wholly a focus on black people as revenue. Black people in Ferguson were twice as likely to be searched during a stop, twice as likely to receive a citation when stopped, and twice as likely to be arrested during the stop, and yet were 26 percent less likely to be found with contraband.”
I Stalked My Psychiatrist
A personal essay about how a search for human connection devolved into an unhealthy obsession.
How Patient Suicide Affects Psychiatrists
For mental-health practitioners whose clients kill themselves, the death of a patient is not just an emotional trauma: they can also face stigma from their colleagues and potential lawsuits.
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taught Me About Being a Stay-at-Home Dad
Ryan Park decides, after his clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to spend a year at home with his daughter before pursuing a corporate job. What he learned about the state of stay-at-home dads in America.
The Politics of Drinking Water
A brief examination of drinking water’s place in American history, and the current politics of clean water.
The Tragedy of the American Military
The story of “a country willing to do anything for its military except take it seriously.” How the public and politicians became disconnected from those who serve.
The Pawn King
Are pawnshops exploiting the poor or saving those hit hardest by the recession?
The Curious Case of Jesus’s Wife
An ancient papyrus is found mentioning Jesus’s wife, and lab tests seem to confirm its authenticity. But the mystery isn’t so simple.
The Technical Constraints That Made Abbey Road So Good
How technology has changed the recording process since the Beatles, and how “option paralysis” can create new problems for engineers and bands.