Marty Makary: The FDA’s Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine
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There are moments in public health when the path forward is unusually clear, when the evidence aligns with behavior, and when policy has a genuine opportunity to... Read more.
What the IHRP Report Means for America, WHO, and the Future of Global Health
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The choice ahead is straightforward. Governments can treat the pandemic as an anomaly and return to familiar habits—or they can use the hard lessons of Covid-19... Read more.
How to Build a Post-WHO Global Health Architecture
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If policymakers focus on separating normative functions from emergency authority, designing time-bound compacts instead of permanent command structures, and tying... Read more.
FinCEN’s Warning—and the Predictable Failure of Prohibition
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network reports that illicit e-cigarettes are being used as part of trade-based money-laundering schemes linked to fentanyl trafficking.... Read more.
The Problem with America First Global Health
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The problem with the America First Global Health Strategy is not that the US is engaged abroad. It is that Washington has wrapped a sprawling, path-dependent set... Read more.
Trump’s Withdrawal from 66 Organizations
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A global climate, health, or development system that depends on the continuous escalation of crisis narratives is structurally incapable of declaring success. Trump’s... Read more.
How a Techno-Optimist Became a Grave Skeptic
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The central question in the AI debate is not just whether machines can be aligned with human values, but whether modern institutions can be trusted to manage uncertainty... Read more.
Washington Post Won’t Say Why Trust in Vaccines Is Gone
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Until public health authorities—and the media that defend them—are willing to acknowledge Covid-era failures openly, trust will not be restored. And without... Read more.
Should Argentina Leave the WHO?
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By engaging selectively, aligning with the United States, and preserving the option of withdrawal, Argentina positions itself to influence the future of global health... Read more.
Coffee, Nicotine, and the Politics of Acceptable Addiction
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This essay only scratches the surface. The strange moral history of nicotine, caffeine, and acceptable addiction exposes a much larger problem: modern institutions... Read more.
Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue over Safer Alternatives
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The POUCH Act is a beginning, not an endpoint. If lawmakers are serious about improving public health, they must resist the gravitational pull of the Sinclair Trap... Read more.
The WHO’s Campaign Against Safe Nicotine
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Harm reduction works. The people who claim otherwise know it. And until the FCTC is willing to grapple honestly with that fact, its biennial gatherings will continue... Read more.