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Crossing Our Health Care Chasm
By Donald Barr It is time to build a bridge across the health care chasm that divides our country. Without that bridge, we risk losing access to affordable, quality health care. This deep divide first began to appear in 2010, following adoption of the...
Corporatizing American Healthcare: How We Lost Our Health Care System
A number of career pathways appeared before me after I finished medical school and advanced specialty training. I chose Academic Emergency Medicine at a University Medical Center, which provided time for research, teaching, and direct patient care. Over the...
Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science
I never intended to write a history of psychological warfare. The project that ultimately became Freedom’s Laboratory started out as a fairly standard investigation into the life and work of Johns Hopkins geneticist H. Bentley Glass. Glass originally attracted...
The Post-Watergate 94th Congress with John Lawrence
With the announced retirement of Rep. Rick Nolan of Minnesota, a milestone in congressional history will be reached next January. For the first time in 48 years, the House will contain no one elected to the historic post-Watergate 94th Congress, the Class of...
The 2016 Election and Higher Education Rulemaking: Important Implications for Regulations Governing Financial Aid and Other Federal Programs
As the millions of college students who receive some form of federal financial aid head to campus this fall, the upcoming presidential election seems to be at the top of everyone’s mind. And with good reason. Among the many important implications of the...