America Dissected

Wellness isn’t just about mindfulness, exercise, or the right skin routine. Science, politics, media

Episodes

Total: 278

Marginalized communities–including low-income and Black and brown folks, and women and LGBT people–a

Abdul and Guest Host Tre’vell Anderson answer everything you wanted to know (and maybe didn’t know y

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised action on President Biden’s Build Back Better agen

Imagine someone could patent your arm, or your mouth. Well, for a long time, someone could patent a

Uh-Omicron

2021/12/7

Omicron has now made landfall in the US. We are learning more about the variant every day—good, bad,

Teeth with Mary Otto

2021/11/30

Because of an accident of history, we think of our teeth as being wholly separate from the rest of o

The movement to legalize cannabis has marked some major wins, helping us better understand its benef

Our health is inevitably tied to the health of our planet. At COP26, the world’s leaders tried to sa

Were we set up to fail? And how does our failure affect the most vulnerable people in society? Abdul

Decades of public health efforts turned America’s young people against smoking. And then JUUL made i

Coming to you LIVE from the American Public Health Association’s annual conference in Denver, Colora

CRISPR is one of those bio-scientific breakthroughs that has the potential to change society. Abdul

Densely-populated with lots of turn-over, cities are perhaps the worst place to be in a pandemic. An

PrEP — or “pre-exposure prophylaxis” — has been a game changer in HIV prevention, that is, for peopl

Abortion bans don’t stop abortions, they just make them less safe. Not only does Texas’s Draconian n

The COVID-19 vaccines have put the FDA front-and-center in our national COVID-19 response. Between t

Native American tribes were among the hardest hit by COVID-19, losing tribal elders to the virus—and

This week, we commemorate the 20th anniversary of September 11. The securitization at home and the “

As children head back to school, masks should be on the shopping list. But, despite CDC recommendati

As football season approaches, Abdul talks about his years on the field and his growing ambivalence