We all know we're big fans of Cariuma, they make cool, eco-friendly shoes that we basically wear 24-7.

We're excited to be releasing our second collaboration with them, Cariuma, by love it or leave it.

There's just something about fall that makes you want to get new shoes, so why not get ones made

with organic cotton canvas, natural rubber, cork, and recycled plastics? It doesn't hurt that they

have tiny surfing dogs on them. Plus, Cariuma plants two trees in the Brazilian rainforest for each

pair purchased. It's great how comfortable and eco these shoes are. Run, don't walk, but not until

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healthcare strike in US history. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the scientists

behind the mRNA breakthrough that powered the COVID vaccines. The CDC prepares to recommend a new

approach to preventing sexually transmitted infections. This is America dissected, I'm your host,

Dr. Abdul Alseid. Last week, we spoke with two leaders who helped expand public health funding in

Indiana. You know, the notoriously red state where Mike Pence once served as governor.

One of the most important points of consensus in that conversation was that public health ought to

be political, but not partisan. Politics has been called many things by philosophers and thinkers,

the art of the possible, war by other means, etc., etc. But in a democracy, politics, it's a

contradiction. Our right to choose our leaders means they can represent our highest aspirations

or our basis desires. Think about the contrast between how you felt the day Barack Obama was elected,

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