Health & Fitness

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...

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...

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...

The redder the state, the shorter the life. That is the argument economist Paul Krugman lays out in a December 2 New York Times column in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

What is the greatest threat to global public health? Many will argue it's COVID-19. That's a reasonable claim since, as of this writing, there are 41,645,545...

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...

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...

Have you gotten your Covid-19 vaccine yet? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of Thursday, one third of the United...

While the Missouri state government sights in its crosshairs the St. Louis Region Planned Parenthood, the last operational women's reproductive clinic in the state,...

They're called "long-haulers". They're victims of Covid-19 in a separate category from the 80% who experience mild symptoms and those complaining of severe symptoms for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...