A quiet algorithmic coup recently reshaped American medicine. The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released their updated dyslipidemia guidelines. By retiring older risk calculators in favor of the new Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease EVENTS, or PREVENTS, equations, these centralized medical bodies expanded the age range for primary cardiovascular prevention up […]

A student raises her hand and asks a question into the microphone. The woman on the screen in front of them pauses, blinks, and answers. The classroom falls quiet as Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski describes what she lived through in her own words. For a moment, it feels as if she is sitting with the […]

In Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick promise to pull back the curtain on what they believe is among the most important dynamics underlying today’s politics: the pro-Israel lobby’s alleged control over American foreign policy. However, they ultimately come up short. Rather than embrace the topic’s […]