This week in In Development Magazine, Morgan Fairless writes on the lack of pain control and palliative care in many LMICs. As I said on Twitter, this one feels very personal to me; my dad has stage IV cancer and palliative care has been… essential. I cannot imagine getting through this without pain relief for him.
Coefficient Giving has two new RFPs: one for vaccine optimization and one for incubators.
Connor O'Brien has a rundown of all the attempts to restrict high-skilled immigration in the US (and the current legal status of each attempt).
Political science research is underpowered (and many papers probably can’t detect differences in crime rates between natives and immigrants).
About 450,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine. This is more men than the US lost in WWII.
Have been thinking about this description of the UK as “American Belarus” all week.
An excellent application of “bless her heart” from soon-to-be Senator Scott Colom.
The last Democratic senator from Iowa wrote the Americans with Disabilities Act. Iowa’s new junior (Democratic!) senator is a wheelchair user and Paralympian.