Health & Fitness

We see the headlines every year, particularly now, around the holidays. Hunger. In the richest country in world history--where Congress pays corporations to keep their workforces...

Whenever Democrats propose policies to make college more affordable or to provide healthcare as a human right, there’s always someone bound to ask, “How...

"The science should not stand in the way of this. When he says open, he means open and full, kids being able to attend...

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is this generation's smallpox. It's our 1918 influenza pandemic. Considering our financial infrastructure was already failing before the pandemic reached our shores, the...

Earlier this year, Alabama opened the proverbial reproductive flood gates after governor Kay Ivey signed the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation. Under this legislation,...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 372.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the United States since vaccinations...

As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic with robust federal intervention and oversight--two qualities the Trump...

In the richest country in the history of the world, nearly half a million people lack indoor plumbing. No surprise, most of them are people...

After Democratic backlash ensued regarding the Biden administration’s decision to maintain the Trump-era cap on refugees permitted to enter the United States, the White House increased the...

The Delta variant of the COVID-19 disease now accounts for around 83 percent of confirmed infection rates in the United States. The Centers for Disease...

It happens to millions every year. They have a medical emergency and assume their health insurance will cover the costs. Then a month or so later...

As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic with robust federal intervention and oversight–two qualities the Trump administration...

How might we react if we discovered a foreign country was working behind the scenes to privatize our public school system? How about if that...

Next week will be the long-awaited Democratic National Convention. The digital format due to the COVID-19 pandemic notwithstanding, the convocation in Milwaukee is expected to...

A great deal of last week’s Democratic debates centered on healthcare.  And when the chilling words “Medicare-for-All” are spoken, there is inevitably someone--moderate Democrat or...

There is no shortage of encouragement and benevolence all around us during this global pandemic. People get it we are all in this together. No one...

Raising the minimum wage will not just help the economy. It will not just help lift people out of poverty or prevent some from descending...

During an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump Jr. stated COVID-19 infection rates have dropped to "almost nothing." https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1322001939266109441 If over nine million is...

As nearly a dozen states are either contemplating or have decided to lift mask mandates, it's time to consider something that has gotten little...

The Republican party loves to refer to itself as the party of "patriots." In promoting this label, it relies on exploiting traditional symbols of American...