If you can’t take the hate, get out of the convention. You might as well put that bad boy in Poor Richard’s Almanack because it’s the God’s honest truth. At least it is for me. I couldn’t force myself to… Read More ›
Social Justice
Gilead’s New FDA Approved HIV Drug Improves Nothing, So Naturally It Costs A Lot
What do you suppose is the going rate for convenience? If you ask pharmaceutical giant and AIDS profiteer Gilead Sciences, the rate for an HIV+ person is somewhere around $29,000. The FDA announced yesterday, amid the media din accompanying the… Read More ›
If Anyone’s Gonna Be Fraudulent Around Here, It’s Gonna Be Us
“The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.” – Christopher Hitchens For being a nation that essentially founded the modern democratic republic, we’ve never been too fond of the whole “democratic” part of the equation. As… Read More ›
Sister Activists
Most of us have a preconceived image of what a “radical” looks like, especially when used within the spectrum of political discourse. If you’re employed by Roger Ailes, what comes to mind is probably something like the protest scene in… Read More ›
A Cure or Some Cash?
There is always a point in researching any highly specialized subject when the documents you are reading stop being written in English. It doesn’t matter what the field is—biomedical research, law, literary criticism—there is a line in the sand that… Read More ›
A Hate Crime in a Loving Place
Is now a good time? Just three weeks ago, after a deranged twenty-something unloaded an AR-15 assault rifle into a crowd at a showing of the latest Batman film, the debate on gun control was pretty much dead on arrival…. Read More ›
The Hidden Costs of PEPFAR
As was evidenced by his absence at the International AIDS Conference last week, President Obama is not currying much favor with the HIV community at the moment. Despite creating the first National HIV/AIDS Strategy in our nation’s history, he hasn’t… Read More ›
In Need of Healthcare Solutions, Mississippi looks to the (Middle) East
“Alabama’s gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam” – Nina Simone A few weeks ago I found myself having drinks with a perfectly nice woman in one of those “mixology” bars… Read More ›
And The Band Marches On…
By Drew Gibson There is a vitality and a glow about Andrew Young that shields you from his frailty. The former UN Ambassador & Congressman can still draw back on that old preacher’s toolbox of rhetorical flourish to stir up… Read More ›
Imprison & Invest: Private Prisons in The Age of Incarceration
This too I know–and wise it were If each could know the same– That every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. Oscar Wilde,… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 