America has always had a debate on the separation of church and state. In recent years a new separation debate has formed, pitting public institutions against parental rights. Perhaps the debate was first framed in 1996 when first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s book “It Takes a Village” ...
Sometimes, the results of clinical studies are counter-intuitive and offer a lesson in not making unfounded assumptions. I encountered an example of that when I read a study on the benefits of radiation therapy after surgery for breast cancer. Radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery for ...
Past and present commissioners of the Food and Drug Administration recently announced an initiative to engage partners to help combat public health misinformation. Explaining the rationale for this move, current FDA Commissioner Robert Califf stated, “I actually believe that misinformation is ...
If you think high energy costs are hard on the middle class, imagine how they affect those struggling to reach the middle class. As the Biden administration marches on with its energy price-boosting climate agenda, it is disproportionately hurting the most economically vulnerable Americans ...
Through a phenomenon called “linked fate,” small or marginalized groups tend to vote more as a unit rather than as individuals, assuming that without doing so they may not have a loud enough voice in the political system. However, exhaustion from a series of broken promises is breaking up ...
As another Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday approaches, our nation has much to celebrate as we strive toward MLK’s dream of a colorblind society. Since King’s untimely death in 1968, our nation has elected and re-elected its first African-American president. We’ve also recently sworn ...