Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for all” plan has gained traction among some mainstream Democrats, including possible presidential contenders such as Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris. And buried in the details of some recent analyses is an intriguing notion: American businesses, now the biggest source of health care coverage in the United States, could completely... Continue Reading →

The NFL's warmup games are in full swing -- and the National Anthem protests are back. Several players on Thursday took a knee, raised a fist or did not take to the field while the anthem was played before a dozen games as the league's first full week of preseason contests kicked off. The action... Continue Reading →

Western Digital came to Mobile World Congress hoping to prove that great things do come in small packages by unveiling a new 400GB SanDisk Extreme UHS-I microSDXCT card. But that card isn't just large, it's also tipped to be fast with read speeds of up to 160MB/s and write speeds of up to 90MB/s. Western Digital... Continue Reading →

Much to the chagrin of summer party planners, weather is a notoriously chaotic system. Small changes in precipitation, temperature, humidity, wind speed or direction, etc. can balloon into an entirely new set of conditions within a few days. That’s why weather forecasts become unreliable more than about seven days into the future — and why... Continue Reading →

Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned why Republicans are happy to pay for tax cuts and "unlimited war" but the GOP, and some Democrats, don't see "Medicare-for-all" or other progressive ideas as financially feasible. "People talk about the sticker shock of Medicare-for-all, but not of our existing system," Ocasio-Cortez said during an interview on CNN's... Continue Reading →

While the rest of the economy pointed higher in July, American workers took a step backwards. Hourly and weekly earnings languished when factoring in the rise in cost of living, according to figures the Labor Department released Friday. Average weekly earnings actually decreased 0.2 percent over the one-month period and increased only fractionally from the... Continue Reading →

If the U.S. economy is really doing so well, then why is homelessness rising so rapidly?  As the gap between the rich and the poor continues to increase, the middle class is steadily eroding.  In fact, I recently gave my readers 15 signs that the middle class in America is being systematically destroyed. More Americans... Continue Reading →

We’ve been told many times that marriage is good for your health; on average married people live healthier, longer lives. But a new study suggests that if the marriage is a bad one, the opposite is true. And husbands seem to be more affected than wives. Researchers at the US universities of Nevada and Michigan... Continue Reading →

The #BEtime movement wants to replace kids' busy schedules with free play time. The average kid in the United States has only 30 minutes of unstructured time each day. That's significantly less than in the 1980s, when kids had roughly two hours a day to do whatever they wanted. The problem is that modern kids'... Continue Reading →

An Atlanta charter school will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance as part of its morning meeting agenda. Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School on Grant Street announced the change Tuesday in a statement from elementary campus president Lara Zelski. The decision was made “in an effort to begin our day as a fully inclusive and connected community,”... Continue Reading →