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A Pittsburgh police officer stands in a downtown Pittsburgh intersection Sunday, May 31, 2020.

If not police, what? Part II

This week in Critical State, a foreign policy newsletter by Inkstick Media, Sam Ratner takes a deep dive into the history of Freedom House, a Pittsburgh-based Black-led nonprofit hired in 1968 to offer ambulance services in some of the predominantly Black neighborhoods around the city.

Anti-coup demonstrators gather tires to burn as they prepare to confront police during a protest in Tarmwe township, Yangon, Myanmar, April 1, 2021. 

Myanmar’s army is turning guns on medics

Conflict
Demonstrators hold a sign reading "Defund the police" during a protest over the death of a Black man, Daniel Prude, after police put a spit hood over his head during an arrest on March 23, in Rochester, New York, September 6, 2020.

Stockholm’s mental health ambulance could help the US rethink policing

Health & Medicine
A conventional, human-piloted ambulance — which could someday be a thing of the past.

Does the idea of a self-driving ambulance freak you out?

Health
Natasha, a paramedic in Haiti's first-ever ambulance serivce, gives cholera patient an IV drip in her ambulance.

Emergency medical care is a rare but fragile sign of progress in Haiti

Medicine
A Janani Express ambulance. Janani means “mother” in Hindi, and the ambulance service transports pregnant women to health centers to give birth.

How a simple van in India can save a mother’s life

Health & Medicine

What do you do if you’re a pregnant woman in rural India, you go into labor, and you have no means of getting to the hospital? Janani Express provides an answer.

A Janani Express ambulance. Janani means “mother” in Hindi, and the ambulance service transports pregnant women to health centers to give birth.

How a simple van in India can save a mother’s life

Health & Medicine

What do you do if you’re a pregnant woman in rural India, you go into labor, and you have no means of getting to the hospital? Janani Express provides an answer.

The World

Labor Unrest Continues in Egypt

Conflict & Justice

In an attempt to return a sense of normalcy to Egypt, the ruling military council has called for an end to labor strikes. Tamer El-Ghobashy, reporter for The Wall Street Journal has the latest from Cairo.