With the final U.S. troops pulled out of Afghanistan over a year ago, some Americans ask why we still need the Fisher House, the “Home Away From Home” housing at military and VA medical centers around the world. Ask Ben Breckheimer. He had been an operating room specialist when, called ...
Much ink has been spilled analyzing Communist China’s National Party Congress in which dictator Xi Jinping unsurprisingly awarded himself an unprecedented (in recent times) third five-year term. Thus, not since the communist regime’s founder, Mao Zedong, had a Chinese leader amassed so much ...
Americans may recall the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Ethiopia in 2019 that killed 157 people. My sister Graziella died in that crash. We now know that was partly caused by Boeing hiding from pilots and the Federal Aviation Administration an automatically activated flight control system ...
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, in remarks last month at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual legislative conference, presented an audacious goal: to cure sickle cell disease by 2030. This was an enthusiastically welcomed statement, given that, for ...
More than two dozen of the nation’s top military heroes are calling on all Americans to save veterans and service members from suicide by connecting with them next month in a nationwide push to reverse the tragedy befalling the men and women in uniform. Twenty-seven recipients of the ...
A state law shielding hogs from inhumane treatment may face the chopping block in a coming Supreme Court case. It’s sad news, but it could teach animal welfare advocates a valuable lesson about effective advocacy. In October, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in National Pork Producers ...
