The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light a myriad of healthcare challenges and inadequacies. Most notably, as mental health needs surge, accessible and affordable mental health services are nearly impossible to find. This has been a problem for decades, but as COVID-19 continues to linger, ...
The wreckage from COVID continues to litter our lives. We work differently, play differently and are entertained differently. For all I know, romance isn’t how it was. How can it be? So many fell in love, or just into dating, at work. When Zooming at home, that doesn’t quite cut ...
Admit it, you’ve never stopped to wonder how the United States gained the Pacific island of Guam, have you? There’s no reason to. It doesn’t come up at dinner party conversations. And they certainly didn’t teach it in school. Guam wasn’t seized in some great battle or handed over ...
To say that the Federal Reserve is between a rock and a hard place is an understatement. Markets want a halt to inflation, but they don’t want a full-fledged recession or sustained drop in economic activity. Households and consumers want their dollars to stretch further and not be ...
My husband joined the Navy in March 1999, and within 30 months we were engulfed in a war that would last the rest of his military career. When his ship pulled out of New York Harbor on 9/11, I never dreamed that we would still be at war when he retired in November 2020. For nearly 20 years, ...
How many Black tennis players does the country need before commentators focus on Frances Tiafoe’s merit before analyzing his race? The No. 1 issue among some prominent news outlets seems to be that Black players are not proportionally represented in tennis. Tiafoe’s stellar performance in ...
