January 22, 2026
(New York Times) – More than 300 Times Opinion readers responded to a January invitation to share their experience of rising health care costs. They included a cancer patient who shifted care mid-recovery to a new insurance plan that doesn’t … Read More
January 21, 2026
(Hastings Center) – On the threshold of the fifth year of full-scale war, we find ourselves in a reality where human life is questioned every day. In a country where the enemy systematically devalues the very concept of dignity — … Read More
January 19, 2026
(NPR) – King is rightly remembered for his leadership in the civil rights movement but far less attention is paid to his views on health and justice. He once observed, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is … Read More
January 12, 2026
(Aeon) – In order to better understand our human nature, we must attempt to build a robot capable of robust subjective experiences With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) that can converse fluidly in the first person, people are … Read More
January 9, 2026
(UnHerd) – What we’re seeing as we enter 2026 is a reversal of the situation C. P. Snow described in his celebrated 1959 lecture “The Two Cultures”. Snow, a Cambridge physicist turned popular novelist, argued that the culture of the … Read More
January 5, 2026
(Jacobin) – In Canada, physician-assisted suicide is available even to people who aren’t suffering from terminal illnesses. In the context of austerity, this often means people are offered death rather than the material support that could alleviate their suffering. At … Read More
January 2, 2026
(WSJ) – More people are resolving to spend less time on their phones and social media, and research suggests there are health benefits A survey by the digital-wellness app Opal (granted, a bit of a biased audience) found that 33% … Read More
December 24, 2025
(TGC) – Generative AI (GenAI) is becoming the most rapidly adopted technology in history. Yet as the world marvels at conversing with machines, my continent, Africa, is in a familiar place: Her people are exploited to fuel a technological revolution. … Read More
December 10, 2025
(New York Times) – While I believe we should extend the subsidies, which expire at the end of the month, to help families pay their insurance premiums, doing so wouldn’t fix the underlying problem: surging health care spending. That’s the … Read More
December 9, 2025
(WSJ) – The tragedy of falling birthrates isn’t merely national decline, strained pensions or a shrinking labor force. It is the intimate, human loss. Americans talk about the country feeling “lonely,” but we rarely connect that to the most obvious … Read More
December 9, 2025
(Seen & Unseen) – Just like the technologies which Arendt envisaged in the 1950s, it is too anthropocentric to think of LLMs as being ‘primarily designed to make human life easier and human ‘work’ less painful’. For sure, this very … Read More
December 8, 2025
(WSJ) – Medicaid pays healthcare providers big bucks to diagnose and treat children with autism—sometimes tens of thousands of dollars a month for a single child. Yet states rarely verify that kids who are diagnosed actually meet the medical criteria … Read More
December 5, 2025
(The Michigan Daily) – In the current issue of Medicine at Michigan, Michigan Medicine celebrates 175 alumni and faculty who have made the University of Michigan world-renowned as the “leaders and best.” The editors “looked for clinicians and researchers who … Read More
December 5, 2025
(Current Affairs) – Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. At San Francisco State University, the provost’s office formally notified … Read More
December 2, 2025
(After Babel) – I asked ChatGPT how it would destroy America’s youth. Its answers were unsettling — and all too familiar. So, borrowing from the cybersecurity concept of red teaming — the practice of hiring an entity to pretend they … Read More
December 1, 2025
(New York Times) – A pacemaker can solve the problem; without one, it can be fatal. But he did not want a pacemaker. His doctors called the psychiatrists to come see him, as we do when people are making decisions … Read More
November 28, 2025
(STAT News) – Ahead of a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting, assessing the evidence is paramount On Dec. 4, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is expected to vote on whether to maintain the long-standing recommendation that all … Read More
November 28, 2025
(Plough) – It’s easy to see why Rizana’s situation was formative in my support for abortion and my decision to work professionally for abortion access. But after graduating from New York University and landing a job at an abortion clinic … Read More
November 28, 2025
(New York Times) – Silicon Valley’s pivot to synthetic intimacy makes sense: Emotional attachment maximizes engagement. But there’s a dark side to A.I. companions, whose users are not just the lonely males of internet lore, but women who find them … Read More
November 25, 2025
(The New Yorker) – When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family. On May 25, 2024, my daughter was born at 7:05 in the morning, ten minutes after … Read More
November 25, 2025
(Slate) – Egg, sperm, and embryo donation allow women like me to give birth in our late 40s—and beyond. Not everyone is so sure we should. While there are huge upsides to parenting when you’ve (mostly) found your financial footing … Read More
November 24, 2025
(WSJ) – A former Wall Street Journal retirement columnist shares the hard lessons he has had to learn about life after work I had heard the adage many times: Man plans, God laughs. I just never imagined it would apply … Read More
November 20, 2025
(WSJ) – Babies delivered under contract rather than into kinship is an ethical nightmare. For too long, affluent nations like the U.S. and the U.K. have tolerated this trade in the name of “choice” and “family equality.” Yet surrogacy is … Read More
November 18, 2025
(Virginia Quarterly Online) – But buried beneath this evergreen drama of illness and cure, the promise of miracle biotech breakthroughs and heroic survivorship, is the story of how American business interests helped to steer politicians away from stopping the cancer … Read More
November 14, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Professional journal articles, reports, and policies are arguably our primary written products, since the main job in bioethics is to help clinicians and others navigate ethical challenges in their work. But we also write for the public, … Read More
