After appearing in 160 movies and winning countless prizes, including two Oscars, 90-year-old Sir Michael Caine announced this year that he is retiring from his distinguished acting career. I don’t know how algorithms work in this context, but these days, social media cannot seem to have enough of him. Or perhaps it is a mark … Read moreUsing difficulty
Since 1988, Dec. 1 has served as World AIDS Day, a day of remembrance and recognition for the tens of millions of people across the globe living with HIV/AIDS—and the tens of millions who have died from AIDS-related causes. As the concerned public marked World AIDS Day for the first time 35 years ago, there … Read moreThe Poster Child for AIDS Obscured as Much About the Crisis as He Revealed
A paucity of Black physicians is shortening the lives of African Americans—and politicians are starting to take note. Senators Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have proposed the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act to address the broader shortage of primary care physicians. The bill allocates funding to medical schools for increasing the … Read moreThe History Behind America’s Devastating Shortage of Black Doctors
Facing enormous pressure to tame what appears to be a spiraling and increasingly intertwined statewide crisis in mental health, substance use, and homelessness, California officials have created the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Court, or CARE Court. The new system is a policy smorgasbord that ranges from the provision of court-ordered treatment and housing to … Read moreCalifornia’s New Plan to Treat the Mentally Ill May End Up Violating Their Rights
In recent years, the quest for eternal life has become big business, as a growing number of biotechnology start-ups race to develop a drug which can prevent aging. Many of them are funded by Silicon Valley billionaires who hope to be the first humans to live forever, and who have personally committed to strict health … Read moreMedieval Advice for Living Forever
On October 31, Dr. Hammam Alloh was the last nephrologist at Al-Shifa Hospital and the last nephrologist in Gaza. When asked by a journalist why he wouldn’t evacuate south with his wife and two children despite heavy bombing and the encroaching Israeli army, he didn’t hesitate. “And if I go, who treats our patients? We … Read moreDoctors in the U.S. Can’t Be Silent in the Face of What’s Happening in Gaza
Forty years ago, half the nation tuned in to watch the end of the world on their television sets, only the world’s most powerful man had already seen it. Against his chief of staff’s objections, President Reagan asked to screen The Day After at Camp David a month before the airdate. After viewing, Reagan wrote … Read moreHow a TV Show Changed the Cold War
Turns out few things work when women aren’t working. Forty eight years ago, women in Iceland took the day off. Those of us who were around then remember October 24, 1975 as the day the country shut down. Government offices, businesses, and service providers either closed or operated below capacity. Households were in disarray. Grocery … Read moreWomen Hold the Key to a Livable World
On Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023 Jillian Ludwig’s family returned home to New Jersey from Nashville. They’d traveled to Tennessee two days earlier, after Jillian, a freshman music business major, was found unconscious from a bullet wound, around 3:30pm at the Edgehill Community Garden, less than half a mile from the university and only two blocks … Read moreThe Many Ways We Have Failed Young People Amid the Gun Violence Crisis
“Cancel culture” has for years been anathema on the political right. Then came October 7th. Now many on the right advocate canceling. Follow us on Facebook & Twitter: @otherviewcom When cancel culture debates largely focused on controversies about race and gender, those on the right tended to decry it as targeting speakers who displayed insufficient … Read moreChoose Counterspeech Over Cancel Culture