Category: Bibliography

NYTimes: Bob Kerrey and the ‘American Tragedy’ of Vietnam

Western universities:
At their best, they cultivate humane thinking. At their worst, they both practice and promote an economic inequality that supports the interests of the 1 percent: exploitation of underpaid adjunct teachers; tremendous increases in student debt; emphasizing the production of workers rather than learners

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A narrative of forgiveness and redemption obscures the very real price the Vietnamese paid for a war.

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Why Can’t the U.S. Treat Gun Violence as a Public-Health Problem?

 

Why Can’t the U.S. Treat Gun Violence as a Public-Health Problem?

A 1996 bill has had a chilling effect on the CDC’s ability to research firearms.

After a deadly shooting, the debate always, it seems, breaks down like this: One side argues for gun control, and the other argues there is no research proving those measures work. There is, in fact, little research into gun violence at all—especially compared to other causes of death in the United States.

The modern origins of the impasse can be traced to 1996, when Congress passed an amendment to a spending bill that forbade the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using money to “advocate or promote gun control.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/02/gun-violence-public-health/553430/