Letters From the February 2024 Issue Letters From the February 2024 Issue
Modern midwifery… Idle laws…
Feb 20, 2024 / Letters / Our Readers
Israel Has Created a Medical Apocalypse in Gaza Israel Has Created a Medical Apocalypse in Gaza
The hospital system is barely functional. Disease is running rampant. Medical workers are being kidnapped, tortured, and killed. And the world is letting it happen.
Feb 20, 2024 / Mary Turfah
I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors
At the Cleantech North America conference, the fates of climate-tech start-ups are tangled into the balance sheets of companies who caused the crisis in the first place.
Feb 15, 2024 / Molly Taft
Unexploded Ordnance in Laos Continues to Maim and Kill People Unexploded Ordnance in Laos Continues to Maim and Kill People
The USA dropped over 266 million bombs in Laos from 1964 to 1973. Over 80 million failed to explode and continue to kill and maim people to this day. Photos taken at the Cooperativ...
Feb 7, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
In the US, Mental Health Treatment Can Be a Death Sentence In the US, Mental Health Treatment Can Be a Death Sentence
Deploying the language of “helping” those in need, policymakers are reaching not for a Band-Aid but a club.
Feb 6, 2024 / Mattea Kramer and Dr. Sean Fogler
Taylor Swift May Yet Save Joe Biden Taylor Swift May Yet Save Joe Biden
Attacks on the popular singer help highlight the sheer weirdness of Trump’s GOP.
The Anti-Abortion Movement Is at a Crossroads The Anti-Abortion Movement Is at a Crossroads
The Dobbs decision was a major victory for the right, but the results of recent ballot initiatives made activists at the 2024 March for Life question the movement's direction.
Feb 5, 2024 / StudentNation / Molly Morrow
Domestic Violence Domestic Violence
The World Health Organization reports that globally, about 35% of women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime.
Feb 2, 2024 / OppArt / Karen Thomas
Making Abortion Safe Outside of the Legal System: A Q&A on Self-Managed Abortion Making Abortion Safe Outside of the Legal System: A Q&A on Self-Managed Abortion
Sociologist Naomi Braine’s new book on the global feminist movement for self-managed abortion took her to Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Europe to study activists’ work the...
Jan 30, 2024 / Q&A / Felicia Kornbluh
Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Cannot Prevent Catastrophe Without a Cease-Fire Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Cannot Prevent Catastrophe Without a Cease-Fire
As the death toll mounts, the urgent need for humanitarian aid has become a talking point that supposedly everyone can agree on. But the conditions on the ground in Gaza mean it’s ...
Jan 29, 2024 / Abdullah Shihipar