On Friday, November 27th Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old white man, entered a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and opened fire. It took more than five hours for Dear to surrender to the police, and when he did, the police found nine injured, and three killed, including one police officer. The following night, The […]
Health & Social Policy
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Report: VA Outperforms Private Sector on Key Measures
A little-noticed report by a trio of leading research groups found the Veterans Health Administration outperforms private sector health providers on several key measures.
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The High Cost of Reproductive Coercion
For most women, birth control is a universal good—but only when it’s consensual.
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A Shocking Rise in White Death Rates in Midlife — and What It Says About American Society
Drugs, alcohol, and suicide have taken an unparalleled toll on middle-aged whites, especially those with a high school degree or less.
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Why the Veterans Health System Is Better Than You Think
Despite ideological attacks and under-funding, the Veterans Health Administration is a model public system.
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Like Being “Buried Alive”: Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement in America’s Prisons
In 1842 Dickens wrote a scathing critique of solitary confinement in America. Nearly two centuries later, little has changed.
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Your Constitutional Right to Privacy (Unless You Want an Abortion in Ohio)
The Ohio General Assembly is expected to vote soon on a bill that seeks to let the state government decide whether a woman’s reason for terminating a pregnancy is acceptable. Introduced in August, H.B. 135 would prohibit women from seeking an abortion because of a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome; a doctor who knowingly performs […]
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Eight Principles for Reforming Solitary Confinement
How we can reduce, make more humane, and ultimately eliminate a practice that, in Justice Kennedy’s words, drives prisoners “to the edge of madness”
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The Pope’s Blind Spot: When Income Inequality and Abortion Intersect
Why reproductive health is a social justice issue.
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What a 20-Week Abortion Ban Would Mean
Mitch McConnell isn’t willing to shut down the government over funding for Planned Parenthood-but only because it would be political suicide, not because he’s suddenly become pro-choice. In an op-ed for Cincinnati.com, the Senate Majority Leader championed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a national 20-week abortion ban that the Senate will take up on […]
