“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...
At Slate today I examine the potential privacy nightmare posed by the emerging healthcare sector that wants to use data gathered from smartphone use to spot men...
My latest at Slate went up a couple days ago, after John McCain performed a weeklong drama in which he first revived the Kill Obamacare movement and then, telli...
From Maryn McKenna at NatGeo: Zika virus has been earning all the headlines, because it is already affecting Americans—including 300 pregnant women, according t...
We’re actually talking about killing our neighbors. Late this month the Supreme Court is expected to rule on King v Burwell, a suit financed by the...
A bit late to my own story here, as a reporting trip intervened, but but a couple weeks ago I wrote an essay for Buzzfeed about the overselling of medical genom...
I am very much of Helen Branswell’s mind that the world’s effort on Ebola, including that of the United States, should be focused on West Africa. Th...
It is 5:30 a.m. on Saturday—the second day of the Wise County RAM clinic—when Brock begins allowing people into the clinic’s makeshift tents. Hundreds of people...
That’s what this story from the LA Times appears to say. If that’s true, seems something is amiss. Surely a POW being debriefed has some a right to ...
Fabulous story from Ian Leslie: Martin Bromiley is a modest man with an immodest ambition: to change the way medicine is practised in the UK. I first met him in...