July 2023 marked the one-year anniversary of the national launch of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Currently, more than 200 call centers throughout the U.S. are respo...
Mental health parity has been a political applause line for more than three decades. And it’s been federal law since 1996, when President Bill Clinton signed the Mental H...
A congressional subcommittee on June 26 heard testimony from several military officers who allege the government is concealing evidence of UFOs. By holding a hearing on U...
Flying has never been safer in the United States. Our country's current approach to aviation safety is clearly working — the U.S. is the gold standard for aviation safet...
The global childhood obesity epidemic has exploded. Over the past four decades, the world has witnessed a tenfold increase in obesity in children and adolescents between ...
There is growing mainstream consensus that partisan primaries are one of the main causes of government dysfunction. They disenfranchise voters, promote division and gridl...
In the latest escalation of his war crimes against Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pulled out of the painfully negotiated grain deal that for months has per...
Even as the state and federal governments are making slow, belated progress dealing with the industrial chemicals called PFAS in our drinking water, we are learning more ...
As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures into context and asking: When was it ever this hot before?
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Too many Americans — and too many American economists in particular — have an unhealthy obsession with the 1%: how much money they make, how much wealth they have, how th...
