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Bea and Jules speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the medication abortion case that made its way to the Supreme Court last week, and discuss the long and sordid history of the Comstock Act, a 19th century “anti-obscenity” law that continues to shape the modern US state’s regulation of sexuality.

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Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss the end of mask mandates in healthcare settings, why masking in places like hospitals was a good idea even pre-pandemic, and the one US agency that could put the brakes on this development——but isn't.

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Read Bea's essay on Eric Adams "mask off at the door" policy proposal here: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/04/09/mask-off-at-the-door-policies-undermine-our-rights-as-disabled-people/

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Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss the pervasive, perennial myth that the Medicare and Social Security trust funds are on the brink of imminent collapse, a myth that feeds austerity in policymaking and false panic that the programs "won't be around" when younger generations grow old.

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Bea and Jules speak with Lexi McMenamin about the avalanche of anti-trans laws introduced in state legislatures this year, the Biden administration's very inadequate plan for how to approach trans rights under Title IX, and how traditional media outlets have almost universally failed trans kids.

Lexi McMenamin is a writer and the News and Politics Editor at Teen Vogue.

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Bea and Artie speak with Nathan Tankus about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and why popular reporting on the bank's collapse only scratches the surface of the extraordinary measures that made up the government's response. Nathan walks us through how the Federal Reserve tipped its hand last month at the power it has to intervene in political crises, and how to understand SVB's collapse, you have to understand what the Fed did in the early days of the pandemic.

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Bea, Abby, and Jules speak with Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete about the overwhelming presence of blockbuster drug Ozempic in the media, and how almost every current take on it approaches the drug from a standpoint of unabashed antifatness.

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Bea speaks with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans, and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that echo our current pandemic.

Find Kathryn's book "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241053

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Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss what it will mean for Medicaid redeterminations to resume April 1st, a process that is expected to see as many as 22 million people lose their health insurance. But first, we check in on a report that the White House will disband its covid team shortly after the public health emergency ends in May, and that Ashish Jha has already been put out to pasture in the Eisenhower building.

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Bea speaks with Ragen Chastain about how flimsy—and flawed—research on weight loss and improved health outcomes is, and how pervasive antifatness has allowed the weight loss industry to influence research and clinical practice with relative impunity.

Ragen Chastain is a writer and researcher. She is the author of the Weight and Healthcare newsletter and the co-author of the Health At Every Size (HAES) Health Sheets.

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Bea speaks with Salonee Bhaman about how struggles over housing and healthcare were linked in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York, and what lessons we can draw from this history for single payer, long covid, and more.

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Read Salonee's article (gated access) "For a Few Months of Peace: Housing and Care in the Early AIDS Crisis" here: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8841694

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