The Injustice of Undrinkable Water
What the Eyes Don’t See is a deeply-readable tale of science, public health sleuthing, and a fight for social justice for some of America’s most disfranchised citizens.
Posts by Margaret Garb
Racism Runs Dry
The New Deal gave Americans a weak welfare state. Prohibition, Lisa McGirr argues, produced a strong and enduring police state.
Chicago Dreams Deferred
Renegade Dreams aims to uncover the new dreams of a post-industrial, 21st-century urban black community, and in the author’s words, to “reframe” the dreamers apart from the rioters, gangsters or savage youth so often portrayed in the media.
About The Common Reader
The Common Reader, a publication of Washington University in St. Louis, offers the best in reviews, articles and creative non-fiction engaging the essential debates and issues of our time.
The Current Issue
The word “stories” was used often at the annual NABIP Capitol Conference, held in the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, February 25-28, 2024. I went because I have my own stories of frustration with health care, and because I am interested when someone seems ready to try to make things better in the largely incomprehensible and vaguely menacing system we all rely on.
