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Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Documents Show Trump Officials Skirted Rules to Reward Politically Connected and Untested Firms With Huge Pandemic Contracts
by J. David McSwane, Propublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Coronavirus The U.S….
Assessing Biden’s start: Poll finds support for activist government
Carl M. Cannon | RealClearPolitics/March 30th, 2021 On March 11, 2021, Joe Biden signed into law a measure that was his top priority even before he took office: a $1.9 trillion spending bill to ease the year-long financial upheaval caused…
MEDICARE FOR ALL COULD SAVE MY LIFE
My insurance says my cancer drugs aren’t “medically necessary.” No one should have to fight for care like this.
Will the State Marijuana Bill Pay Off for Black and Brown New Yorkers?
Clifford Michel, THE CITY This article was originally publishedon Mar 25 at 10:32pm EDTby THE CITY The landmark deal struck by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature Thursday to legalize recreational marijuana in New York State reportedly includes one…
Women are still less than one-third of Congress and state legislatures, even after two big election cycles
A Republican rebound drove overall gains in 2020, but women are still underrepresented at all legislative levels, according to a new analysis by Rutgers University’s Center for Women and Politics. Amanda Becker
Democrats Eye Medicare Negotiations to Lower Drug Prices
Emmarie Huetteman March 23, 2021 Democrats, newly in control of Congress and the White House, are united behind an idea that Republican lawmakers and major drugmakers fiercely oppose: empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate the…
People gave up on flu pandemic measures a century ago when they tired of them – and paid a price
J. Alexander Navarro, University of Michigan Picture the United States struggling to deal with a deadly pandemic. State and local officials enact a slate of social-distancing measures, gathering bans, closure orders and mask mandates in an effort to stem the…
‘Sex addiction’ isn’t a justification for killing, or really an addiction – it reflects a person’s own moral misgivings about sex
Joshua B. Grubbs, Bowling Green State University A 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different spas in the greater Atlanta area on March 16 and shot dead eight people, six of whom were Asian women. The following…
‘Doing nothing’ is all the rage – is it a form of resistance, or just an indulgence for the lucky few?
Ingrid Nelson, Amherst College The pandemic has either created too much free time or too little. Kitchen-table commutes and reduced social obligations expand mornings and weekends for some, while caretakers and gig workers are exhausted by the constant, overlapping demands…
US could save tens of thousands of lives and tens of billions of dollars with 3 weeks of strict COVID-19 measures
Anna Scherbina, Brandeis University
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor