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 ...
AARP goes to great lengths to maintain its public image as a politically unaffiliated senior advocacy organization. However, a quick peak behind the scenes makes it clear this image is largely a mirage. For years, the organization nurtured this perception, which helps the group skim by ...
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” ...
“Adulting is a never-ending to-do list,” a dear friend mused recently. I had never heard a more accurate description of what it meant to grow up. There are all the things that must get done daily, and then there are the important but unnecessarily difficult tasks to navigate, like ...
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 ...