Olga Khazan
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
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FBI / AP / James Marshall / Evening ... How Racism Gave Rise to Acupuncture for Addiction Treatment
Black Panthers and other activists brought the ancient Chinese practice into addiction medicine in New York in the 1970s. Despite a lack of firm evidence, it’s still popular in some communities.
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Vivek Prakash / Reuters How to Write a Book Without Losing Your Mind
Expert advice on ending procrastination and finishing that manuscript, dissertation, or other big project
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John Gress / Reuters Why Conservatives Find Life More Meaningful Than Liberals
It has nothing to do with Trump.
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Youtube / photka / FocusStocker / Shutterstock / ... After the Police Brutality Video Goes Viral
Three years after a pool-party video made McKinney, Texas, infamous, I returned to find suburbanites who feel threatened, a mayor and activists at odds, and socioeconomic divisions that persist.
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Chlophoto / Shutterstock The Frightening Link Between Beef Jerky and Bipolar Mania
In humans and rats, eating cured meats might induce manic episodes.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Illegal Abortion Will Mean Abortion By Mail
What to expect when you’re expecting your abortifacient pill delivery
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Toby Melville / Reuters ‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice
A major new study questions the common wisdom about how we should choose our careers.
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Thanasis Zovoilis / Getty The Epic Battle Between Breast Milk and Infant-Formula Companies
When Trump administration officials opposed a WHO breast-feeding resolution, they followed a long history of policymakers listening to baby-formula manufacturers.
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Edgar Su / Reuters A Frightening New Reason to Worry About Air Pollution
A massive study solidifies the link between particulates from cars and diabetes.
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Getty The States That Exercise Least
A new CDC report highlights geographical trends in leisure-time physical activity.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Want Health Care in Arkansas? Find a Job
A conversation with the head of the department of human services in the first state to force a group of people to work in exchange for medical care
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The 3 Reasons the U.S. Health-Care System Is the Worst
The head of the Commonwealth Fund, which compares the health systems of developed nations, pinpoints why America’s is so expensive and inefficient.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters Separating Kids From Their Families Can Permanently Damage Their Brains
A pediatrician explains how the trauma of family separation can change biology.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters Poor Americans Really Are in Despair
The wealth gap is also a happiness gap.
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Gerald Herbert / AP What to Eat in the Texas Suburbs
No, not Austin.
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Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters Racial Resentment Can Motivate Opposition to Welfare
In a series of experiments, researchers show that when whites feel threatened, they oppose government assistance.
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Delcia Lopez / Reuters ‘More Than a Gag Rule’
The head of a family-planning organization on how Trump’s change to a federal birth-control program will affect women
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Spencer Platt / Getty Another Shocking Opioid Statistic
Another study shows the epidemic is outpacing the resources devoted to it
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Andy Kropa / AP Ambien Doesn’t Cause Racism
Roseanne Barr suggested that the drug prompted her to tweet racist remarks, but is that possible?
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Marcelo Del Pozo / Reuters A Surprising Reason to Worry About Low Birth Rates
They’re linked to an increase in populist sentiments.
