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The Personal Price of “Systemic” Healthcare Inequality
Shallow attempts at cultural sensitivity might appear to encourage diversity, but in truth, they erase the true diversity that occurs within—not between—different racial, ethnic, and religious groups.
American Dreams: Immigrant America Before and After the Pandemic
There’s no justification as potent as a pandemic for xenophobic policies and politicians.
A Ticking Time Bomb: Primary Healthcare in the Age of Coronavirus
Primary care cannot be put at the forefront of the conversation until the pandemic is under control, but time is running low.
Creating a New Southern Strategy—A Conversation with Charles Booker
I just believe we have to invest in people directly—tangibly—so that they, we, the people, can have the tools to do what we do. We are the creators, we are the dreamers, we are the innovators, we do the work.
The Political Implications of Meritocracy
Meritocracy ultimately becomes a cop-out for powerful people attempting to avoid the work of addressing inequalities ingrained in society.
On the Weaponization of Social Media
With the United States considering a ban of TikTok, serious questions should be asked about the ability of a government to censor social media
The Misleading Language of Race in Medicine
When medicine relies on arbitrary standards based on race alone, when it blames “comorbidities” without acknowledging the roots of these inequalities, ultimately, it plays into the same false ideas that fuel the more obvious forms of racism.
Cast Adrift: America’s Foreign Visitors and the Global Pandemic
With the world on lockdown and every country an island, thousands of Mongolians and other foreign nationals have now been marooned in the United States for months