FROM THE ARCHIVES: One benefit of this website is that it allows for some more interesting older essays, interviews, and other projects I have worked on to be occasionally resurrected for a current audience. This interview with best-selling author Christiane Northrup, M.D., is from Chicago’s Conscious Choice magazine (September 1998). Here she explores some of her
In the wake of the sad news of entertainer Robin William’s recent suicide, news and social media outlets were flooded with a predictable flurry of stunned reactions and commentary. How could a man with such fame and wealth, admired and loved by millions, be unhappy enough to actually want to kill himself? If only Williams
Here’s a story I wrote in 2009 for Common Dreams on the fine work of a group of Oregon doctors who support single-payer health care. I’m reposting it along with a few other articles I’ve written on the health care topic in recent years. Unfortunately, the issues and problems discussed here remain relevant, despite passage of the Affordable Care
With the release of SiCKO in 2007, Michael Moore took discussions of single-payer, government-sponsored health care from the fringes of national political debate to center stage. But it should be obvious by now it will take more than a movie to get the insurance companies out of the health care system. It will also take
THOUGHTS ON ACUPUNCTURE, BODYWORK, AND HEALING EMOTIONAL TRAUMA There’s an old Cheech and Chong comedy routine called “Acupuncture” that features Tommy Chong as a traditional Chinese acupuncturist treating new patient Cheech Martin. The latter complains of chronic headache. He’s tried everything from hypnosis to yoga, standing on his head to Quaaludes and cocaine, he tells
MARK HARRIS 