The COVID-19 pandemic creates universal death anxiety. We cannot see or touch or smell the virus that has now killed 500,000 Americans. It is everywhere and nowhere—making its lethal, invisible contamination seem almost a supernatural force.
January 25, 2021"With such human costs of war in mind, it’s a wonder to me that the only bipartisan bill passed by Congress over a presidential veto in the Trump years was the recent monumentally funded $740 billion “defense” bill. Most striking to me, however, amid its massive support for the military-industrial complex, is how little that bill does to expand social support for military families."
December 22, 2020Trumps loyalists drop off at a growing rate. Science get back in place as the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis starts looking into Trump's non-experts.
September 11, 2017A clinical psychologist on the anxiety our politics appears to be causing.
August 17, 2016Our criminal justice system ignores larger truths about the lives of the accused.
July 14, 2016Those tasked with enforcing our laws are human beings with a human psyche, just like any other — and the system that isn't working for the communities they serve also isn't working for them.
October 17, 2014Why are we letting these serious social problems be handled by the criminal justice system?
July 15, 2014A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
November 29, 2013Carol McDaid, who fought for equality between mental health care and other medical treatments, talks about how this month's final ruling could affect health care and gun violence.
October 21, 2013The Kansas Department of Health and Environment recently released a startling report showing a 30 percent increase in suicides from 2011.
