This past week was Black Maternal Health Week, a time to highlight the importance of Black maternal health. We are in a maternal health crisis in this country and in Nevada. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than ...
America’s gender pay gap is real, extremely real. Women with full-time wages and salaries earned 83.6% of what men did in 2023, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, the world is losing its mind over WNBA No. 1 draft pick Caitlin Clark’s rookie contract: four years totaling $338,056 — about $84,500 annually ...
Clinical lab tests are at the top of the chart when it comes to consumers’ ongoing concerns about surprise bills, according to some industry reports ...
In the fall of 2022, Robin Clough and Dr. Gene Dorio were going about their lives as they had for many years, serving older adults in Southern California. Clough was busy with her work as an administrator at the local senior center while Dorio, a house-call geriatrician ...
There is a growing movement to install Christian chaplains in public schools. The Washington Post reports that bills are pending in nine states, have passed in one legislative chamber in three states, and Florida has a bill waiting for the governor’s signature. This is clearly unconstitutional; it is bad for ...
At the 2016 Republican National Convention, when I told Donald Trump’s “God whisperer” Paula White that he referred to her as his pastor, she said she was his spiritual adviser — as if that were some sort of “get out of jail free” card for her. And yet White worked hard in our conversation to convince me that ...
Israel needs to strike back — hard! Whatever a few countries and the unknowledgeable and gullible left in the United States say about Israel’s right to defend itself against those who would ...
Weeks before she was slashed to death outside her Brentwood condo in 1994, O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, had predicted her own death ...
China’s strong hold on the supply chain for rare earth elements is well known. Beyond stating that we need to shift our reliance on China and begin building robust domestic supply chains, what are the tangible, actionable steps that will get us there? ...
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and offices are being eliminated all over the country. The rationale for doing so is often explained as some version of “we should instead be focusing on trying to find the best people for the job.” The unspoken assertion is that these programs reduce the quality of the workforce.
Congress has averted another government shutdown. But often lost in the shuffle during these multitrillion-dollar budget battles are appropriations for lifesaving veteran programs that employ wagging tails to heal invisible wounds of war.
How grotesque to watch long-term U.S. security interests hang on the outcome of a political battle between the Hamlet-like speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and vengeful MAGA conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Students of the U.S. Supreme Court were enthusiastic to note Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s surprising concurring opinion in the Colorado presidential disqualification case, Trump v. Anderson.
