Harold Pollack and David Perry point to services for the disabled as something often overlooked by supporters of single-payer healthcare.
Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel discuss the limits of neuroscience in understanding human emotion and cognition.
Michael Brendan Dougherty makes the case.
Bill Scher argues that pushing for impeachment is a waste of effort and that a criminal indictment of the president is a surer outcome.
Massimo Pigliucci, co-editor of the new book Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism, explains why science alone can never answer all questions about human consciousness. Plus: Why there is no empirically grounded “good”.
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis evaluate the aggressively partisan tactics of gun control activists. Plus: Roseanne returns.
Phoebe Maltz-Bovy and Kat Rosenfield discuss whether authors of children’s literature should be held to a higher ethical standard than creators in other fields.
Yousef Munayyer of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights discusses the protest that drew a violent response from Israeli forces.
William Black and Elizabeth Catte discuss Appalachian identity.
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the rebooted show’s sympathetic representation of Trump voters.