06/03/2026
“Seven Days in June has called for "elevating health as a national priority." That means a lot in a very direct, practical, and technical sense: access to healthcare for all, including to mental health, prescription drugs, and state of the art treatment, as well as ongoing medical research of exactly the kind under attack by this administration, the research that once made, well, America great until this slash-and-burn policy went after all kinds of science. But beyond that it has to mean the security, the peace and safety, the economic justice, and the healthy environment that means not just that each of us gets treated when we get ill, but that we build a society in which a lot of that illness is less common.”
When I was young I believed that the ideas I needed to grasp were complicated fact-dense new ones, and maybe back then I did need to take in more data. As I've gotten older, I've come to realize that a lot of the important things are not just facts to
