When Steven Thrasher started reporting on Michael Johnson, the Lindenwood University student known to some as “Tiger Mandingo” who had been charged with (and later convicted of) “recklessly infecting ...

Jason Perlow wrote a great piece this afternoon asking if the digital revolution, particularly as it relates to books and libraries, was creating a "Digital Underclass". When the printed media on ...

Taxi Driver was one of a number of movies in the 1970s that presented a menacing underclass, unemployed and threatening social stability. (Fifty years ago, America launched a great experiment, ...

Steven Thrasher, PhD, assistant professor and Daniel H. Renberg Chair of social justice in reporting at Northwestern University, released his book The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality ...

We share the planet with over 380 trillion viruses right now. Some of these powerful pathogens can kill us and even bring the world to a halt — as the novel coronavirus did in 2020. Viruses teach us ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a photo of two little girls in the parking lot of a California Taco Bell went viral. They were doing their schoolwork on laptops in that inconvenient ...

If you are an American citizen, you are of little value to today’s Democratic Party. If you identify as a Democrat, a patriotic citizen, support the Declaration of Independence and believe in the U.S.

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Eric J. Topol, MD: Hello. This is Eric Topol for the Medicine and the Machine podcast. I'm thrilled today to welcome Steven Thrasher (@thrasherxy), the ...