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The Rarely Acknowledged Public Health Achievements of Obama’s Drug Policy 27 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
After initially accusing President Obama’s outgoing drug policy director Gil Kerlikowske of opposing public health measures in drug policy, Eric Sterling had the class to publically acknowledge Kerlik...
War crimes and other blunders 27 Aug 2013 | 05:23 am
The United States government supplied targeting intelligence to Iraq (under Saddam Hussein) for what it knew would be chemical-weapons attacks on Iran in 1988. Gee, I wonder who was President back th...
New Class: Future of Medicaid in North Carolina: Charge & Questions 27 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
I am very excited to be teaching a new Masters of Public Policy course this Fall at Duke University on The Future of Medicaid in North Carolina. The 14 students all have background in health policy, i...
And now…the rest of the story. 26 Aug 2013 | 10:34 pm
Mark’s first post on Tim Groseclose’s liberal-media-bias book (which he linked to in this later post and this one) links, if one clicks on the phrase “grossly tendentious,” to a critique of Tim’s book...
Media bias and the Hostile Media Effect 26 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
Responding to the post about Max Boot and the Groseclose studies of “liberal media bias,” commenter Dilan Esper writes In my experience, everyone thinks the media is biased against their side. Which ...
Medical Mispronunciations 25 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
One of the challenging aspects of a career in medicine is that every week you have to learn new nonsense words that have been invented to describe the latest products. 2013 has already brought us Osph...
Quote of the Day 25 Aug 2013 | 03:36 am
Then, from His place of ambush, God leapt out. –Rainer Maria Rilke
Socialism and the civil rights movement 25 Aug 2013 | 02:45 am
I second Harold’s endorsement of Harold Meyerson’s essay on the socialist underpinnings of the civil rights movement. Looking forward to the equivalent piece on the contributions of libertarians and c...
The March on Washington, fifty years later 25 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
It’s the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. If you want to read something excellent about, read Harold Meyerson’s fantastic article on the contributions of Bayard Rustin and other democratic...
Black Women’s Rate of Imprisonment Has Fallen Sharply 25 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
Rates of imprisonment have been declining among African-Americans for over a decade. This trend began long before the recent decline in the overall size of the prison population. The change is mainly ...
