Congress Resists Research Cuts
Like many scientists across the country, cancer cell researcher Neil Ganem was alarmed by the massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that were proposed by President Trump in March...
View ArticleSenate Republicans’ Health Care Reform Bill Will Hurt Millions
For seven years, Republicans have promised to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), and they may finally be able to do so. We should all worry that they might succeed. They have...
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Mapping Mass Incarceration
Massachusetts has a reputation for being one of the nation’s most progressive states, but scratch beneath the surface and the Bay State might not be as fair and just as it claims to be. Jessica Simes,...
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Bad Medicine
In January 2012, biomedical engineer Muhammad Zaman received a disturbing call from a friend. There was trouble in Lahore, the Pakistani city where, coincidentally, Zaman’s father had spent most of...
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Immigrant Stars “Power” Significant Startups
Entrepreneurship has long been a hallmark of the American identity, and studies have shown that recent American immigrants are among its most fervent supporters. Immigrants, for example, are more...
View ArticlePublic Health Study: Higher Homicide Rates Tied to More Permissive Laws
With gun violence, especially mass shootings, dominating the news recently, gun control is in the forefront of issues people are concerned about. A new study led by a School of Public Health researcher...
View ArticleWeighing Our Options for Dealing with North Korea
North Korea has proven that even “a tinpot dictator” like Kim Jong-un can guide an extremely poor country into nuclear weapons possession. While some analysts argue that additional sanctions—more...
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Cost of Post-9/11 Wars: $4.6 Trillion
How do you count the costs of war? In the Pentagon’s most recent accounting, the total authorized US spending on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria between fiscal years 2001 and 2018 is $1.52...
View ArticleFDA’s Plan to Delay New Food Label Is Misguided
I’m confused—and mad—about the Food and Drug Administration’s plan to delay the implementation of the much-needed new food label, the iconic rectangle of nutrition information on food packages. A year...
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University Launches $20 Million Innovate@BU Initiative for Students
Three BU students, three creative problem solvers and innovators: Clarinda Blais (CAS’17) started the Free Philosophy Project to bring Aristotle and Plato to women in homeless shelters in Boston as a...
View ArticleWhat a Government Shutdown Means to BU
Shutdown of federal government enters third day BU investigators should continue working on and submitting proposals to Sponsored Programs as indicated Federal student financial aid should not be...
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Leaders of US Cities Worried about Lack of Affordable Housing
If you want to get mayors of US cities talking, says Boston University political scientist David Glick, ask them about affordable housing. Republicans and Democrats alike, mayors of big coastal cities...
View ArticleMisstatement of the Union: What Trump Got Wrong on Immigration
American immigration law and policy were featured heavily in Tuesday night’s State of the Union, President Donald Trump’s first since his election. But his rhetoric, which included a flippant and...
View ArticleWork Requirements + Medicaid = Bad Medicine
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued guidance inviting state proposals for instituting work requirements in the Medicaid program. No prior administration has allowed...
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Farmers and Forests
Two decades ago, the tiny town of Sorriso, deep in the heart of Brazil’s tropical savanna, wasn’t much to look at: three or four streets and a cluster of cheap multiunit buildings. “There were no...
View ArticleWill Mike Pompeo Plunge Us into a Mideast War?
After US president Donald Trump fired his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, March 13, 2018, many analysts have focused on how this high-level ouster took place: unceremoniously, on Twitter, not in a...
View ArticleWhat’s Ahead for the Stock Market?
One year ago, BU economist Laurence Kotlikoff forecast a coming stock market crash, brought on, he said, by a president whose policies, including a threatened trade war, could spook investors. During...
View ArticleBU Expert: Trump Opioid Plan a Dud
Give President Trump this much: he’s assertive when presenting plans. Trump’s opioid initiative, announced last week, plugged the death penalty for drug dealers and cutting illegal immigration, which...
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You’ve Heard of Single-Payer. What about All-Payer Healthcare?
BU SPH’s Austin Frakt says all-payer care could control American healthcare costs States could make hospitals charge all insurers the same prices A tough sell, but more acceptable than single-payer...
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Counterfeit Viagra Is a Problem
In 2012, a cluster of people in Lahore, Pakistan, started dying inexplicably. Most were mid- to low-income patients who had received free medicine at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology. Within a week,...
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