The Fallout
…searched the Internet, printing out any information on the landfill she could find. During her son’s nap time, she spread the documents out on the kitchen table, leaving the floor…
…searched the Internet, printing out any information on the landfill she could find. During her son’s nap time, she spread the documents out on the kitchen table, leaving the floor…
…the bus. While her younger son watched Sesame Street and ate Cheerios out of a plastic bowl, she searched the Internet, printing out any information on the landfill she could…
…to take care of the entire population of the city. It’s classic primary care plus mental and behavioral health, substance use disorder treatment, physical therapy, dentistry, home health, emergency medial…
https://www.guernicamag.com/dr-michael-fine-capitalism-bad-health/
…same thrill and revulsion he’d felt today. The heat and damp of her skin against his palm. Fucking— The diamond of pale skin through the chain link, the gray-green eyes…
George Polk Career Award, and the National Book Critics Circle 2003 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. These two oral histories were excerpted from the new paperback edition of his oral…
https://www.guernicamag.com/studs-terkel-you-got-into-my-heart-violently-but-youre-there/
…2007. Their sophistication, the intricacy of their networks, the links between them—established partly in Mali—really surprised me. But I would also say I was surprised by the level of sophistication…
…covers hospital treatment (down from 41 percent in 1986). We’ve been moving away from hospitalization and towards pharmaceuticals. The US government spends approximately $26 billion on mental health hospital treatment,…
https://www.guernicamag.com/geoff-watkinson-empathy-and-infrastructure-for-mental-health-care/
…church as a way to cultivate their finer sensibilities and as a result, encourage better treatment from masters. The logic here, though not explicitly stated, suggested that African Americans invited…
https://www.guernicamag.com/jen-manion-when-white-liberals-and-black-elites-make-things-worse/
…end the ill treatment of asylum seekers. Luca Belgiorno-Nettis chose to leave the Biennale, not his relation to Transfield. (I say this knowing the complex business networks that might not…
https://www.guernicamag.com/rachel-friedman-in-their-own-words/
…to rethink safety nets. Right now, nets are being spread for the wrong people. But now we have to rethink safety nets. Right now, nets are being spread for the…
…that drug companies had access to their prescription-writing history.) These records are purchased from health research companies who get the information from various sources, primarily pharmacy chains. When pharmacies sell…
…herbalist Samuel Thomson, in the nineteenth century, used a mixture of brandy, cayenne, and myrrh to “remove pain, prevent mortification, and promote a natural heat.” Look at it this way:…
https://www.guernicamag.com/myrrh-in-the-time-of-the-anthropocene/
…an oral-history quality to it, the elliptical-ness of oral histories. The way I was gathering my research was often through oral histories, some passed down and some actually recorded at…
https://www.guernicamag.com/david-grann-the-devil-was-standing-right-there/
…the man had existed. Other people would not be so convinced, specifically the people who were in her Oral Memoir group. “No room for tall tales here,” Olin, one of…
https://www.guernicamag.com/stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one-before/
…Amendment, it’s perhaps not surprising that almost every major news outlet and Supreme Court blog reported on last Thursday’s oral argument. But it’s telling that on the same day Snyder…
with genetic material from his parents plus a small amount of genetic code from a third person, a before-conception treatment that protects the baby from a genetic disease carried by…
…left waste running through the streets in some residential neighborhoods.” Pipes leading to the waste water treatment plant near the former Israeli settlement of Netsarim were bombed in the early…
For the last week of August 2003, Janet and I returned for a third summer to Stonington, Maine, where we paddled our ocean kayaks among the granite islands of Penobscot…
…She ran for governor first under the Working Families party and later in the Democratic primary with her running mate, Columbia Law School professor and net neutrality pioneer Tim Wu….
…and eventually the wider internet. As a journalist and former academic, Petersen has a knack for looking critically at, yet writing colloquially about, cultural phenomena—getting at the larger trends, truths,…
https://www.guernicamag.com/miscellaneous-files-anne-helen-peterson/