Towards a language that can support the creation of a healthier world and a less divided moment.
In 2017, I wrote an essay, published in The Milbank Quarterly, arguing that the then-new administration would be harmful for Americans’ health for two reasons—by representing a disinvestment in the resources that shape heath, and by sowing a language of division that would rend the fabric of trust that we need to create a healthier world. I was not alone in these concerns, and subsequent years have shown that they were not without cause. In many ways, this period of American history will perhaps inevitably be remembered as a time characterized by enormous public distrust and divisions that are unprecedented in the past century.
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