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You’re 21? It’s time to join AARP

Those annoying invitations to join AARP began flooding my mailbox a few years before I turned 50. I had nothing against the American Association of Retired Persons. I just had something against getting old and being reminded of it when I walked to my mailbox. Like late 40s is old. AARP is a ...

Separating the truth from lemons is the American way

In the aftermath of another turbulent election season, maybe it’s time for politicians, regulatory agencies and the media to return to something that feels almost quaint: the truth. During World War II, the “Superman” radio show writers coined the phrase “Truth, Justice and the American ...

Health care 2023: Be proactive, focus on daily health

As we start to emerge from the dark COVID cloud, there were some rays of sunshine in terms of the progress that healthcare made in 2022. Congress acted in a bipartisan manner to fund research and vaccines and, oddly enough, spent little energy arguing about whether people deserved healthcare ...

Let’s get real on Iran

It feels like Yogi Berra’s déjà vu all over again. A populist protest on the streets of Iran — channeling Iranians’ hopes for democratic freedom and a joining of the modern world — is put down violently by Iran’s brutal theocrats who deface Islam by using our faith as a perverted ...