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Last week, the Senate voted NOT to extend ACA subsidies, turning their backs on the American people and igniting a health care crisis that is already exploding at the bed...
December 20, 2025 Other Voices
A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, or even the slowing of the progression of, dem...
December 19, 2025 Other Voices
Generosity is shocking. Especially when it’s to strangers. That was my first thought upon hearing of the Dell family donation of $6.25 billion to fund Trump Accounts. I h...
December 18, 2025 Other Voices
ChatGPT and its peers have become the bane of teachers. Students churn out homework assignments with it and, according to one exasperated professor, secretly feed themsel...
December 17, 2025 Other Voices
In the realm of horror, it was hard to beat the headlines in February that you were carrying around the equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in your bra...
December 16, 2025 Other Voices
It’s hard enough for most of us to predict what we’re having for dinner tonight, much less how the world will look in 2100. By that time we might have cured cancer and st...
December 13, 2025 Other Voices
It has been a turbulent couple of weeks in national security, highlighted by continuing strikes on high-speed boats in the Caribbean that are, according to the Trump admi...
December 12, 2025 Other Voices
Across much of the industrial world, trust in government is low and declining. Why is this happening and why, exactly, does it matter? An unusually thorough new study loo...
December 11, 2025 Other Voices
For the first time in the group’s 17-year history, the G20 summit in Johannesburg last month was marked by a complete absence of the United States at the negotiating tabl...
December 10, 2025 Other Voices
We are nearing a tipping point with artificial intelligence. Scientists call it the singularity — the moment when machine intelligence surpasses our own. Some experts war...
December 09, 2025 Other Voices
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