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Carter

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On March 28, 2018
It's time to remember two true things about Jimmy Carter. First, he was a bad president who undermined his own administration through his obsession with inflation, his governance well to the right of his congressional majority, and his personal management style. Horrible treatment by the...

Zika and Inequality

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On February 21, 2016

Disasters, however "natural," are a wonderful (well, horrible really) entry point into exposing to the public to deep fissures on inequality in a society. That's true whether they are earthquakes,.

Ebola

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On November 9, 2015

With all the intensive fear-mongering coverage of Ebola in the weeks before the 2014 midterm elections, you'd think that the World Health Organization declaring Sierra Leone Ebola-free would be big.

Cancer Clusters

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On December 12, 2014
Paul Voosen has an interesting article at National Geographic that wonders why there has not been more known cancer clusters develop given the nation's long history of toxicity. There's no shortage of the skeptic in Voosen and so the article in places reads like someone...

Health News as Entertainment

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On October 25, 2014
Hiltzik has another good piece, this time featuring maps of preventable diseases to show the impact of the anti-vaccination foolishness. The general outlines we know here since we have slammed on the anti-vaxxers many times. But I thought this was an important point we probably...
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