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OPINION-ESSAY: Repeal the Dickey Amendment to Address Polarization Surrounding Firearms in the United States
Forces against the funding blockade put in place by the Dickey Amendment in 1996 have grown more vocal over recent years....
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ARTICLE: I’m a Psychiatrist. Making Gun Violence About Mental Health Is a Crazy Idea | POLITICO
Before the initial shock wore off in the aftermath of yet another horrific American mass shooting—before we knew about the extent of the injury and ...
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On Censorship and Scientific Integrity in Difficult Times
“CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words.” This was the headline of a December 15th Washington Post story that alerted the public to behind-the-scenes bu...
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OP-ED: When the Shooter is White | The Washington Post
President Trump, who is quick to label other global acts of mass violence as “radical Islamic terrorism” well before investigations establish such...
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ESSAY: March Madness: Trump Budget Threatens College As We Know It
We’re in the midst of yet another electrifying March Madness basketball tournament,......
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OP-ED: Guns in Donald Trump’s Chicago | The Conversation
The furor that ensued after the tweet raised an important question: How would Trump’s gun policies affect life for communities of color in cities li...
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OP-ED: When a parking dispute is also a hate crime | MSNBC
They said it was a parking dispute, an everyday interaction between neighbors. That the exchange emerged from charged tensions of the banal. That ...
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President Obama’s Executive Action on Guns
President Obama has taken important action toward stemming the tide of gun......
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OP-ED: What is the Role of Psychiatry After Ferguson | Somatosphere
What role should mental health care professionals play in helping heal psychical wounds exposed in the aftermath of Ferguson and New York?...
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ARTICLE: Are looser gun laws changing the social fabric of Missouri?
Missouri is poised to become the latest state to allow guns into......
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ESSAY: Sequester This! The Perils of Masculinity and the Truth About Sex | Public Books
A review of the tell-all exposé authored by Harvard urologist Abraham Morgentaler,......
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OP-ED: The New Science of Blaming Mothers | MSNBC
We’re back to blaming mothers in health research—or so it would seem.......
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ARTICLE: The NRA and Black People | The Grio
Last week the National Rifle Association opened a cynical new front in......
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OP-ED: When shootings happen, gender must be discussed | MSNBC
The male gender has all too frequently functioned as the white elephant in the room when it came to understanding mass shootings in the United States....
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OPINION-ESSAY: Let’s Talk About Guns, But Stop Stereotyping The Mentally Ill
Restricting gun rights for people with mental illness is the one gun-control initiative that Republicans feel free to support. In the aftermath of the...
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