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Posted inEditor's Pick

Drugs Killed 8 Friends, One by One, in a Tragedy Seen Across the U.S.

by Seyward Darby December 2, 2022December 6, 2022

“It just, it took them.”

Robot pushing portable toilet behind android woman
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Story

Braindump: A Reading List on the Future of Sanitation, Toilets, and Bathrooms

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 27, 2022October 19, 2022

Five great bathroom reads (that you don’t necessarily need to read on the toilet).

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘The Mansion on Emerson Street’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 24, 2021October 19, 2022

“After more than a year of allowing most homeless camps to remain intact so as not to displace people during the pandemic, cities across the country are now beginning to confront another public health crisis unfolding on their streets.”

Posted inBusiness, Crime, Current Events, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction

The Silencing of #MeToo Reporting in Germany

by Seyward Darby January 28, 2021October 19, 2022

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, profile, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Writing

The Alarmist: Is One of the Pandemic’s Loudest Scientific Voices Helping or Hurting Public Health?

by Seyward Darby December 8, 2020October 19, 2022

Meet Eric Feigl-Ding, the town crier of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Posted inFood, Quotes

Feeding Our Kids, In Fatness and in Health

by michelleweber May 21, 2018October 19, 2022

If struggling parents feed their kids KFC, is it nutritional neglect or love?

Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

Where Have You Hidden the Cholera?

by Longreads April 5, 2018October 19, 2022

In Mozambique and around the world — and throughout history — cholera outbreaks have caused riots. Why? And what does it have to do with bicycles?

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

Reunification Will Have to Bridge the DMZ and Massive Technological Gaps

by michelleweber June 22, 2017October 19, 2022

Physicians in South Korea are working to understand the health issues North Korean defectors face, in preparation for eventual reunification.

Posted inEditor's Pick

In Defectors From the North, Doctors in South Korea Find Hope — and Data

by michelleweber June 21, 2017October 19, 2022

A program tracking the health of North Korean refugees rests on the premise that someday, health care will once again be a shared responsibility.

collage no "No Smoking" signs
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

(Don’t) Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em

by michelleweber February 4, 2017October 19, 2022

June Thunderstorm, writing in The Baffler with the support of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, digs into the race and class issues that underlie efforts to quell smoking. Is “public health” really the name of the game?

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