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AIDS
November 29, 2024
Charlotte Kilpatrick
Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV
We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.
July 27, 2023
Julia Sonenshein
What Climate Change Is Doing to Our Sex Lives
How will our hotter world affect our intimacy?
September 9, 2022
David Marques
Conservatives Want You to Die for Their Personal Beliefs
A Texas judge’s ruling that employers don’t have to cover HIV-prevention medication is further proof that the right sees public health policy merely as a tool to punish political enemies.
June 17, 2022
Magazine
Jeremy Lybarger
Thom Gunn’s Anti-Confessional Poetry
With a genius for understatement and formal restraint, Gunn wrote some of the most powerful poetry of the AIDS crisis.
April 12, 2021
Alexander Zaitchik
How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.
December 10, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Nick Kristof and the Holy War on Pornhub
Having declared victory in its war on Backpage and sex work, the liberal-conservative coalition has pivoted to porn.
April 8, 2020
Scott W. Stern
Don’t Look For Patient Zeros
Naming the first people to fall sick often leads to abuse.
May 27, 2019
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Alexander Chee
Finding Stonewall
For too long, I knew only part of the story of the riots of 1969.
December 21, 2015
Adam Peck
Gay men can finally donate blood, as long as they don’t get any action.
December 1, 2015
Steven Cohen
Commemorate World AIDS Day with this rediscovered recording of Ronald Reagan's press secretary cracking gay jokes in the '80s.
February 4, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
If Anti-Vaxxers Want a Revolution, They Just Might Get One
December 8, 2014
Alejandro Varela
The Best Way to Beat AIDS Isn't Drug Treatment. It's a Living Wage.
November 16, 2014
Elaine Teng
The U.S. Government Should Stop Discriminating Against Gay Blood Donors—and Start Imitating Mexico
November 4, 2014
Julian Gewirtz
How to Understand the Frailties of Life with HIV? Poetry
August 6, 2014
Malcolm Gladwell
The First American Ebola Outbreak
The unscientific origins of our obsession with viruses
July 18, 2014
Harold Pollack
AIDS Researcher Who Died in Malaysia Airlines Crash Was A Scientific Hero
June 26, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Here Is Where You Will Find HIV
Maps are the newest weapon for fighting the epidemic
May 26, 2014
Eric Sasson
The Media Forgets That AIDS Is Still an Epidemic, But Hollywood Doesn't
'The Normal Heart' is a damning indictment of our government's negligence
May 16, 2014
Michael Hobbes
Can You Really Compare the AIDS Crises in the U.S. and Western Europe?
The statistical quirks of looking at AIDS across countries
May 13, 2014
Michael Hobbes
Why Did AIDS Ravage the U.S. More Than Any Other Developed Country?
Solving an epidemiological mystery
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