Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts According to several recent studies of health care systems across the globe, the U.S. health care system...
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There are a lot of ways to measure a society and a country in decline. Economists like to track gross domestic product and national debt. Politicians and...
I’ve always been a big fan of what economists call the public sector. I could dress up that enthusiasm with fancy language about “solidarity” and the “common...
Forty-one years ago, I joined the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, located in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. As a first-generation college student from a...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify As Medicaid faces severe cuts in the federal budget that will take health care away from millions of people, Laura...
On July 18, a federal court blocked a law passed in Washington state that would have required clergy to report child abuse when shared in the confessional...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify What do you get when 800 billionaires hoard more wealth than half the U.S. population combined? A rigged tax system and a society...
By the time you read these words, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)—created in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy during an era of global...
As 2024 concluded, the demolition of Gaza and its people continued unabated. After 15 months of violence, their suffering, normalized, faded into the...
Catholics are far from immune to xenophobia. Many white Catholics seemed unbothered by the racist attacks on Catholic Haitians of Springfield, Ohio, following...
