The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

I recently attended a National Institutes of Health (NIH) meeting concerned with criminal justice interventions. Speakers emphasized the importance of involving people with lived experience—which everyone understood to mean persons who have experienced arrest and incarceration.  More

America’s public health system is being eroded. Proposed federal cuts would slash core programs by half, even as communities face rising infectious disease outbreaks, worsening chronic disease, and shrinking access to basic prevention.   More

In our bitterly partisan age, where science and public health are distrusted, even denigrated, there is a better part of America.  More

The number of older Americans who are food insecure is growing, yet a recent Trump administration decision to terminate data collection of the annual Food Security Supplement will make it impossible to fully track this growth.  More

The December 2025 Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence has generated familiar responses from familiar quarters.  More

The implications of the Department of Justice’s action to eliminate the “disparate impact” test, which provides the legal foundation for removing discriminatory barriers in public health and health care.  More

Political analysts have argued that inflation and concerns about the economy were driving factors in the 2024 presidential election. As costs for…  More

nsider the story of John Miller, a fictionalized Chicagoan, who lives with a serious mental illness and co-occurring addiction disorders. He recently left a psychiatric inpatient facility.  Estranged from his family, Mr. Miller was on the verge of becoming street homeless.   More

Despite all the criticism, the ACA has had notable success in achieving its objectives.   More

US adults’ awareness of actions threatening public health and science declined between March and September 2025, according to a new survey.  More