A Journal of Ideas

Public Health

The Right’s Attack on Children

“Parental rights” are all the rage now in some quarters. But when parents gain rights, who loses them? Children.

By Marci Hamilton

A roundtable discusses recent incremental victories, how the movement has changed in the last decade, and what’s next.

The Future of Gun Reform

By Jennifer Mascia Greg Jackson Jr. Po Murray Igor Volsky Garen Wintemute

World Bank Bias Threatens Pandemic Breakthrough

President Biden’s unheralded breakthrough in the fight against global pandemics is threatened by World Bank colonial biases. The Administration can still change course.

By Paul Davis Erika McKibben Kristin Urquiza

‘Pandemic Nihilism [Is] Not the Solution’

Death Panel Podcast’s Beatrice Adler-Bolton tells Democracy why we must confront our individuated approach to health care and protect the needs of the most vulnerable.

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton

We're Not 'Back to Normal'

And why acting as if we are is so detrimental to those who have been the most underserved during this pandemic. An interview with Dr. Julia Raifman.

By Julia Raifman