THE POLICY ENTREPRENEUR, BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03
One federal program provides health coverage to a fifth of all Americans and more than a third of all children. It covers nearly half of all births. It consumes more than $500 billion ann…
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ALL THOSE MINDS LEFT BEHIND, BY JOSEPH J. FINS ’82, MD
From the headlines, it would be easy to think that the totality of health care policy is the fate of Obamacare, the th…
HEALTHCARE AND RACISM: A TOXIC MIX
Recasting Metabolic Syndrome
Associate Professor of Science in Society Anthony Hatch, who has been living with type …
MEDICINE AS A MINDFUL PRACTICE: RONALD EPSTEIN ’76 MD, BY DAVID GLENN
One day in 1978, Ronald M. Epstein ’76 lay writhing in pain on a gurney in an empty hallway of an Amsterdam hospital. …
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WESLEYAN HISTORY (NOT REALLY…)
To walk Wesleyan’s campus is to be surrounded by history that whispers from buildings. Presidents left their mark (or di…
ORAL HISTORIES, BY CHRISTINE FOSTER
In the 1960s, Wesleyan began to grow from a small college into a somewhat bigger, more diverse university. Scores of you…
NO PASSING ZONE: AMERICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE
Casey Dinges ’79 and his colleagues at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) developed a report card that …
CONFLICT OVER A MODEL OF ISLAMIC PLURALISM
BY PETER GOTTSCHALK
Professor of Religion Peter Gottschalk’s research and teaching concentrate on the dynamics of cultural interpretation and conflict in the context of Islamic, Hindu, Christian, and scientific tr…
THREAT ASSESSMENTS
BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03
White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011, 4:00 P.M. EDT: Presiden Barack Obama and his inner circle anxiously watch aerial footage of one of the highest-stakes and riskiest operations eve…
PAGAN KENNEDY ’84 CHARTS AN UNCOMMON LITERARY COURSE
BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03
PAGAN KENNEDY ’84 has always seen things a little differently. When she recently met Abby Solomon, a 21-year-old with a rare genetic condition that prevents her from eating more than a few bites …