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As a pediatric resident in Texas, I have seen how important Medicaid is for my patients and their ability to access the care they need to thrive, and what can happen when there are gaps in that care.

Recently, I saw a ...Read more

When I was much younger than I am right now, I got a new job.

I'd been out of work for a while before I got the job, but I had some freelance work and some money in the bank, and I lived cheap.

A small number of people...Read more

Mississippi leads the nation. That's not a typographical error. And it's not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the nation on all sorts of negative things.

Once upon a time, ...Read more

One of the many traits that set California apart from other states is the way undocumented immigrants are woven into our communities.

Their economic impact is obvious, and the Golden State would be hard-pressed to keep ...Read more

Chicago Public Schools is selling off 21 school properties, hoping the sales will result in a nice windfall of cash and reduced maintenance costs in the long run. This board applauds such sensible decision-making, which ...Read more

Tuesday, the S&P 500 edged back into positive territory for 2025. That’s remarkable given that on April 7, the widely followed stock market index was showing a gut-wrenching 21% decline from its record high on Feb. 19.

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The controversial appointment of oncologist Vinay Prasad — an outspoken critic of the pharmaceutical industry and U.S. health agencies — to a key role within the Food and Drug Administration was a shock for drug ...Read more

It’s no secret that partisanship is more intense than at any other time in recent history. And these intense political feelings don’t just play themselves out through gridlock in Congress.

The threats of political ...Read more

As one of the first acts of his second term, President Donald Trump suspended the U.S. refugee program, not to be restarted “until such time as the further entry into the United States of refugees aligns with the ...Read more

“The casting couch is not a crime scene.”

These words, uttered last month in court by defense attorney Arthur L. Aidala during Harvey Weinstein’s retrial in New York, should make any thinking person in, and outside,...Read more

We are on the cusp of losing the integrity of one of the most significant environmental acts ever enacted in the United States. Why should this matter? As the Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson put ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna D-Calif., represents Silicon Valley, but this weekend, he’ll rail against President Donald Trump and GOP-proposed cuts to health care from podiums in Allentown and Levittown, two ...Read more

The real value of President Donald Trump's acceptance of a $400 million "palace in the sky" — a super luxe Boeing 747-8 grift, er, gift, from the oil-rich Qatari royal family — could be in what it reveals to his fellow...Read more

While the national spotlight often falls on state-level abortion bans or Supreme Court rulings, a quieter but more transformative effort is underway in Washington. In his second term, President Donald Trump is not simply ...Read more

I hope Trump pushes forward on tariffs. Hear me out.

He has already backtracked faster than a hiker who spies a rattlesnake. Trump spent the first weeks of his second term spitting out tariff rates in a twitchy staccato. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal school voucher program has long eluded conservatives, even as advocates for school choice have scored victories in more than a dozen red states over the past two years.

Now, a sweeping proposal by...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nearly 100 people rallied outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in San Jose on Thursday to protest what they called repressive immigration policies as the U.S. Supreme Court ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has developed a draft architecture and plan to implement the proposed “Golden Dome” air and missile defense system, its spokesman said, as questions mount about the Trump administration’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump has stated that birthright citizenship — which his administration is trying to overturn in court — was originally intended for a narrow group of people: the children of slaves.

But multiple ...Read more