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The right medicine for the rural doctor shortage

Healthcare is notoriously more difficult to provide for rural communities than urban ones. Rural Americans are less likely to have a healthcare provider they trust and have more difficulty reaching doctors and hospitals. Nearly two-thirds of rural communities suffer from a shortage of primary ...

Fact-checking has always been an elemental part of journalism

A whole new area of endeavor is opening up for the entrepreneurial. Name it after the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. He allegedly hunted for an honest man and was possibly the founder of Cynicism. Verification will become a vital business as the flood of misinformation engulfs ...

Comprehensive treatment centers save lives

More than 5 million Americans struggle with opioid use disorder, a physical addiction entwined with America’s health crisis, homeless crisis and mental health crisis. The most successful, evidence-based road to recovery is medication coupled with counseling, like that offered at Comprehensive ...

HOLY COW! HISTORY: Meet America’s six-minute president

How many people have been president of the United States? History surrenders this secret grudgingly. Several people technically were president, but aren’t considered presidents of the United States. You have to look hard to find them, but they’re there. For example, George H.W. Bush was ...

With growing demand for electricity, America needs coal

America’s coal policy has been an abysmal failure. Government policy has made it increasingly difficult and costly to produce and use coal for nearly two decades. The Biden administration went so far as to craft an entire package of rules to wipe out the nation’s coal power plant fleet. ...