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Patient Pessimism: Coping with the Death of Global Health
Since January 20, 2025, global health is bursting with good-faith arguments on why US led foreign aid needs to be saved. This is a coping mechanism for a field fundamentally altered—you might salvage some parts, but global health’s transformation is irreversible. The epitaph has been signed. You can call it a ‘paradigm shift’ or a…
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The One Where They All Turn Thirty
I. Something uncanny happened this September. I found the TV show Friends referenced three consecutive times. First, it came up in the show Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, as the title of the unproduced screenplay co-written by Erik Menendez. Second, it came up in the sci-fi thriller Leave the World Behind, where a…