Helpless to Prevent Cancer? Actually, Quite a Bit Is in Your Control

By Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times, July 5, 2016.

Americans seem very afraid of cancer, with good reason. Unlike other things that kill us, it often seems to come out of nowhere.

But evidence has increasingly accumulated that cancer may be preventable, too. Unfortunately, this has inflamed as much as it has assuaged people’s fears.  To read the article, click here.

Wisdom of the Ages

I was sitting at breakfast this morning with my granddaughter, Rose. The New York Times headline “Truck Attack on French Crowd; Scores Die” sat ominously on the counter next to us. I was trying to explain to a brilliant nine year old that a man had driven a truck through a crowd of people in France and killed at least 80, many of them children. Rose’s question was simple, “Didn’t anyone teach him the Golden Rule?” And all I could say was, “probably not”.

To read the complete post from Medium, click here.

The Eviction Economy

by Matthew Desmond, New York Times, March 5, 2016.  A sociologist at Harvard, Matthew Desmond has recently written the book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the America City.  To read this piece from the Sunday New York Times Review, click here.

Barbara Ehrenreich reviewed his book in the Sunday New York Times Book Review, February 28, 2016.  To see that review, click here.

Jennifer Schuessler also wrote about the book in the New York Times February 23, 2016. Click here to read that article.

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