HealthCommentaryMike Magee In early December, 2025, President Trump directed HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy to review the standing childhood immunization schedule. That schedule has historically guided the state school-entry requirements for vaccines as well as mandating no out-of-pocket costs to parents from vaccine insurers. The order had followed Kennedy’s summary dismissal of all members of the […]
Mike Magee “The (American) problem runs deeper. Americans are not just skeptical of institutions. Many appear increasingly likely to judge their fellow citizens as morally bad. That is a different and more corrosive problem. Distrust can make people cautious. Moral contempt makes cooperation feel naive, compromise feel dangerous, and reform feel futile. They dehumanize so […]
Mike Magee For nearly a quarter century I’ve been answering the question, “Why is health political?” I will not force the “gentle reader” through that explanation one more time. But it is worth noting that no administration in my lifetime has made my point more clearly than the current one. It has forced on each […]
Mike Magee Are you for us, or against us? Will you tolerate border incursions, or deter, destroy, and extract? Will you bend (and how far) to accommodate your former enemies and betray your friends? These questions may sound provocative and political, but they have nothing to do with our current leadership disarray in the U.S. […]
Mike Magee In 1872, English mathematician and sometimes poet, Augustus de Morgan, wrote this catching rhyme: “Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.” This truism about competition among species for access to nutrition and reproduction could have come in handy to […]
Mike Magee Bad Bunny came to the rescue, and 135 million citizens worldwide were ready and waiting for relief. A 13 minute oasis, and WOW – the power of culture in the hands of a gifted artist. The human sugar cane set, ravaged electric grid but heads held high, joyful music and dance, choice to […]
Gemini Image Mike Magee In the 1994 classic movie, Reality Bites, college graduate and fledgling documentary film maker Winona Ryder forms a troubled bond with a troop of characters that includes GAP sales associate, Janeane Garofalo, who may have HIV; Steve Zahn who struggles to figure out how to tell his parents he’s gay; Ben […]
