Health & Fitness

We've had nearly four years of exposure to Donald Trump to make some reasonable assumptions about his behavior. For example, many know he is a...

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...

The Koch brothers thought they hit a home run with their new Obama care ad, but this new parody takes a stunning shot right back at them.

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...

Well, here we are, in a full-blown public health emergency and the federal government whose job it is to provide the necessary precautions and...

If there is anything the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic fiasco has exposed, it’s our societal inequities. When it comes to public health, the most obvious inequity lies...

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...

Author Mark Twain once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Last week, the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) once again demonstrated its...

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...

To date, more than 390,000 Americans have succumbed to COVID-19. As of Saturday, there are 23,644,885 confirmed cases in the United States. By the time you read...

Do you ever get the feeling the Trump administration deliberately contravenes whatever makes the most logical sense? "Bad for the environment? Let's do it!" "Blatantly violates...

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...

Why is Florida apparently the only state to be receiving the lion's share of equipment necessary to combat the coronavirus? Might it have something to...

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...

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...

As the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic nears, focus is naturally on the number of infections, deaths, and hospitalizations, especially as scientists closely...

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...

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...

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,...

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...