Category: Health and Medicine

The Real Villains

Caitlin Johnstone Dec 05, 2024 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The CEO of health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare was gunned down by a masked assailant on Wednesday, much to the delight of Americans who’ve been suffering under their nation’s abusive healthcare system and […]

A Mystery of Fewer Deaths

Recently at The Signal: Alex Vatanka on how much Iran is driving the conflict in the Middle East. … Today: Magdalena Cerdá on why fewer Americans are dying of drug overdoses. … Also: Michael Bluhm on what North Korean soldiers are doing in Russia. The Signal explores democratic life, […]

After Dobbs

Sponsored by The University of North Carolina Press In the Review’s Election Issue, Christine Henneberg writes about the effects that the 2022 Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has already had on women and abortion providers in the United States: Under the current patchwork of state laws […]

Jessica Burbank and Robby Soave discuss Kamala Harris’ economic plan and mounting criticism it’s getting. #KamalaHarris #Economy

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   El Niño Speaks El Niño Speaks 127: COVID-19’… 0:00 1:11:07 El Niño Speaks 127: COVID-19’s Impact On Education The Higher Education Roundtable discusses the long-lasting effects COVID-19 has had on education in America. Aug 19 READ IN APP Upgrade to […]

The age of Ozempic

View in browser  |  Your newsletter preferences 08.14.24 Your spam filter is full of it. Your favorite rapper is rapping about it. We’re witnessing the dawn of the age of Ozempic—probably the most culturally pervasive pharmaceutical since the little blue pill. That drug, semaglutide—sold by Novo Nordisk under […]

Eurosiberia Podcast #32: Abyssal Argonaut

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now Eurosiberia Podcast #32: Abyssal Argonaut Constantin von Hoffmeister and Arktos Journal Aug 7 READ IN APP Abyssal Argonaut and Constantin von Hoffmeister talk about Mormon history and cosmology, the Archeofuturist nature of Mormonism, the similarity between Russians and normal […]

Why We Lost The War On Drugs

We’ve been fighting the War on Drugs for over 50 years now, and it’s only gotten worse. Even with Obama officially retiring the phrase “War On Drugs” that was just symbolic, we’re still fighting the same fight we always have, but not against an even more formidable enemy: […]

The wait continues

Repro Nation Monthly | June 2024 Hello Repro Nation readers!   It’s a big month for abortion, and not just because the US Supreme Court is due to issue one more ruling in the next week (or weeks?) that could impact access nationwide. Like many people across the […]

My Problem With IVF — And Ours

The creation of human embryos as a means to an end. Andrew Sullivan Jun 21, 2024 ∙ Paid (Christophe Archambault/AFP via Getty Images) Longtime Dishheads know my basic position on “reproductive freedom.” For all my Catholicism, I’m for it. I believe in maximal sexual freedom for consenting adults […]

The Deadliest Addiction

Eckhart Tolle is so right when he says that nothing important can really be threatened. So it’s okay to give up that trauma in the identity that goes with it. The longer I live the more I think that identity itself is an illusion. The future is truly […]