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By MIKE MAGEE Last week, policy wonks from the right and the left, finally found a topic they could agree on – Kids are no longer having (as ma...
By KIM BELLARD It probably didn’t show up on your calendar, but Monday was World Ocean Day. It’s a day meant to catalyze “collective action for...
By MATTHEW ZACHARY The American healthcare system behaves exactly as its incentives tell it to behave. That sentence sounds almost boring until...
By TOMMY BEVERIDGE Just like the Holy Roman Empire was none of those things, America’s health care system is neither health care, nor a system....
By EMMANUEL SARKEES Arizona consistently ranks among the states with the highest uninsured rates in the nation. Over 800,000 residents lack hea...
By MATTHEW HOLT More tales of the woes of dealing with health insurance. I live in Marin County, California and one of the things that comes wi...
By KIM BELLARD Until a couple of days ago I hadn’t heard of the phrase “meat computer.” Apparently this has been around for some time, and, as...
By KIM BELLARD MIT is, most people would admit, a pretty good school. Even those who don’t know a lot about universities probably associate MI...
By KIM BELLARD A New York Times interview with Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D – Mass) by Bret Stephens caught my attention. I am somewhat familiar wi...
By MIKE MAGEE In its final summary of the landmark paper in Nature this past month, the authors led with this statement: “This study underscore...