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Tue, May 30, 2023 | 11:12

Radio daze messaging in the video age

This was the week when Americans were astonished to discover that the most famous Democratic elder statesman and Republican rookie in our national politics have something very basic in common. And it is driving their most fervent faithful bonkers.

2023-05-29 16:05

Ending masking requirements in hospitals and clinics is a step backward for health care

Recently, many of the hospitals and clinics in and around Chicago, including my own, have elected to discontinue universal masking requirements, noting the lowest rates of COVID-19 in the last three years. This is being hailed as a sign of moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic. But is it really “moving on?” Or moving backward?

2023-05-28 13:00

Zelenskyy tries and fails to get support from the global South at the G-7 summit

Bakhmut, the midsize Ukrainian city that used to have a population of 80,000, is now reportedly in Russian hands after a bloody nine-month military operation that turned the area into a wasteland. But regardless of who controls Bakhmut, the war will go on for the foreseeable future - the U.S. intelligence community assesses the fighting will progress well into 2024.

2023-05-25 16:00

California teaches Florida and Texas a lesson in ESG

Back in 2015 when California had the seventh-largest economy in the world, outperforming the rest of the U.S., economist Irena Asmundson attributed her native state's trajectory to a government increasingly in harmony with the diversity of its constituents. The cost of clean energy will “continue to fall” because of the convergence of “public policy and people's preferences,”...

2023-05-25 16:00

Harry and Meghan's car chase claims are alarming. When do paparazzi break the law?

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, alarmed the world this week by stating that they were “involved in a near-catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi” in New York City, echoing the deadly pursuit of Princess Diana.

2023-05-24 17:53

By avoiding funding Alzheimer's research, the government is cutting seniors' life spans

Millions of patients and their caregivers breathed a collective sigh of relief when drugmaker Eli Lilly recently announced its new experimental Alzheimer's medication appears to slow cognitive decline by 35 percent. The Food and Drug Administration could approve the new treatment, donanemab, as soon as this year.

2023-05-23 16:00

America's health care system benefits the insurance industry, not patients or doctors

Could this be the year when America starts to shift away from the employer-sponsored health insurance model?

2023-05-22 16:00

Can today's AI truly learn on its own? Not likely

One of the boldest, most breathless claims being made about artificial intelligence tools is that they have “emergent properties” - impressive abilities gained by these programs that they were supposedly never trained to possess. “60 Minutes,” for example, reported credulously that a Google program taught itself to speak Bengali, while the New York Times misleadingly defined ...

2023-05-21 15:50

'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' has a powerful message about animal testing

"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" is a fun superhero comedy-action Marvel movie-but it has an unexpectedly compelling message. As the film reveals Rocket Raccoon's backstory, moviegoers learn that our beloved hero (voiced by Bradley Cooper) was the subject of cruel laboratory experiments run by the High Evolutionary, an evil villain void of compassion. Fellow Guardian Nebula s...

2023-05-18 16:10

Policy is at a crossroads in a deeply troubled Afghanistan

Nearly 21 months after the U.S. withdrawal from a two-decadelong misadventure in Afghanistan, an increasingly polarized Washington continues to ask the same old questions. Who lost Afghanistan? Was Afghanistan ever America's to win? Who is at fault for the collapse of the Afghan security forces, which U.S. taxpayers funded to the tune of $89 billion? And could the Biden admin...

2023-05-18 16:05

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