National Asthma Awareness Month is an opportunity to recognize the role of tailpipe emissions in the global epidemic of pediatric asthma and the role zero-emission transportation can have in improving public health. Over the last year, the United States has made tremendous strides toward that ...
We think malaria is a problem faced only by humid, hot countries. But just over a century ago, the disease thrived as far north as Siberia and the Arctic Circle and was endemic in 36 U.S. states. Back then, malaria is estimated to have killed 80,000 people yearly in Europe and North ...
Last year, President Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act (PSRA) into law and heralded a new era of fiscal accountability for America’s mail carrier. Clearly, the law has failed to get the U.S. Postal Service back on firmer footing. Despite forgiving nearly $60 billion in postal debt, ...
One day in June 1921, the editor of the Herald newspaper in Troy, Alabama, finally had enough. A clipping from the previous Sunday’s Brooklyn Daily Eagle lay on his desk. “An Assassin’s Monument,” the headline said. It had been reprinted in papers nationally. The editor angrily banged ...
As Ronald Reagan used to say, “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.” And that was long before the federal government spent $6.27 trillion last year, with a deficit of $1.38 trillion and an inflation rate of 6.04 percent — the consequence of too much money ...
It may be America’s most important uncelebrated holiday. May 3 is National Skilled Trades Day, and it comes at a time when employers are scrambling to find 400,000 welders, 78,000 truck drivers, 18,000 aircraft mechanics, and enough certified EV technicians to fully staff electric vehicle ...