What role can maintaining a plant-based diet play in reducing risk of type 2 diabetes?

Colorblind Racism

While the law is theoretically race and class-neutral, in practice, access to resources (i.e. the ability to post bail, to hire capable defense counsel, to present a plan for alternative sentencing) creates great disparities in how justice is dispensed in the US.

Why Has the EPA Shifted on Toxic Chemicals?

After joining the E.P.A.’s toxic chemical unit in May as a Trump-appointed top deputy, Nancy B. Beck quickly used her position of power to rescind rules and regulations that previously streamlined the agencies ability to track the health consequences of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical often used in stain-resistant carpets and non-stick pans that has […]

Mississippi Food Insecurity

What actions can Governor Phil Bryant take to efficiently combat the mounting hunger crisis in Mississippi, which bears the highest rates of overall and child food insecurity in the nation with 1 in 5 individuals having limited access to affordable and healthy foods?

Foundations of Geopolitics: Putin’s Playbook?

Are you familiar with a Russian named Aleksandr Dugin? He is a political scientist who was and potentially still is an adviser to the State Duma and supposedly reflects the ideas of the “elites” in Russia. He has written a lot of books, but the most relevant one is Foundations of Geopolitics. The significance of the book is not Aleksandr’s exact plan or his exact ideology. It’s the fact that the ideas in his book are strategically being implemented right NOW by the Kremlin.

Arch Street Bones: Excavation and Analysis Report

I spent my summer digging up coffins and piecing together Philadelphia’s earliest history.

My Thoughts: One Month Later

I’m just troubled by the lack of accountability and blatant disregard for truth coming out of the Republican Party and Fox Media. It’s somewhat scary, no?

Make Celiac Disease Biopsychosocial Again

As a diagnosed celiac for 12 years now myself, I’ve always been eager to learn more about how the disease may manifest its psychological and social consequences both in others and in myself. Furthermore, understanding this relationship from a biopsychosocial perspective, rather than a strictly biological one, may lead to improvements in the way we treat and perceive celiac disease in the future. While there is certainly no shortage of literature detailing the biological effects of celiac disease on diagnosed individuals, analyses’ of the diseases’ psychosocial implications often remain an overlooked afterthought. I wish to compare and contrast the various psychosocial impacts of celiac disease on diagnosed individual’s quality of life as well as rationalize its principal demographic through an analysis of socioeconomic status.

Affective Economics, Globalization, American Idol, American Crisis?

Today, globalization and television formatting have led to the construction of popular shows such as American Idol and an entirely new international business strategy: increasing homogenization of systems on the principles of private ownership and profit goals

Let us not forget: Wealth Care

Understanding and evaluating the economic and public health impacts of Medicaid, Medicaid expansion, and the Affordable Care Act may be more important now than ever before, but why? Simply, the entire healthcare delivery system may be the most polarizing issue currently being discussed in contemporary America.

Eternal Vigilante

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.