BY DAVID WILSFORD When you think about public policy issues that are not working well, it does not take a rocket scientist to identify the health care system in the United States as one of them. For those who study public policy and particularly those who look at how other countries do it, a central [...]
BY BENEDICT CARTON Why are South Africa historians studying an unfolding pandemic? Many historians of Africa might consider it unorthodox to study the present, but the devastating reach of AIDS, particularly in South Africa, is altering the compass of their disciplinary approach. With one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world, South [...]
BY RITA CHI-YING CHUNG One outcome of globalization is the increased movement of people by either legal or illegal means. Recently there has been increased media attention to human trafficking that has exposed the clandestine nature of this illegal migration. There are various definitions of human trafficking supplied by the United Nations, the International Organization [...]
BY LISA PAWLOSKI Obesity is increasingly becoming an epidemic in industrialized nations, particularly in the United States, where one out of every three adults is obese. We are not alone in this emerging public health crisis. In Europe, rates of obesity among adults are as high as 25 percent in the United Kingdom and Germany, [...]