We are living through the most significant healthcare crisis to face a rich world nation in the post-World War II era. Americans are spending more than four times as much per capita on healthcare today than we were in 1980. Healthcare spending in the United States has increased from $74.1 ...
President Biden’s decision to approve the ConocoPhillips Willow Project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve sparked the usual debate between economic development and environmental concerns. According to media reports, some inside Biden’s White House opposed the deal. But for retired ...
When so many working families are struggling, the Biden administration is proposing rules that would squeeze low-income Americans out of the credit market. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced a rule limiting the amount a credit card company can charge for late or delinquent ...
In 2000, something remarkable happened: the world came together and committed to a short list of ambitious targets that became known as the Millennium Development Goals. The objectives — to reduce poverty, fight disease, keep kids in school and so on — essentially boiled down to eight ...
America’s detente relationship with China regarding Taiwan has had enormous benefits for all three countries for the last five decades, but an unsettling slide toward political posturing and rhetoric puts the future of that relationship at risk. The United States must affirm its commitment ...
Last year my 24-year-old daughter, Annabel, decided to go into nursing after earning a bachelor’s degree in another field. She’s now in a master’s program and well on her way to becoming a nurse and probably a nurse practitioner after that. But watching her navigate the complex, ...