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The pile of Medicare-for-all plans just keeps growing. A new contender is Medicare for America, put forth by Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). It was heavily informed by the work of Yale professor Jacob Hacker. I caught…
A “blue wave” swept Democrats into the House during the 2018 midterm elections, and now that they’re there, a new poll shows that most Americans want them to do one of the main things they said they would: investigate President…
Identical twins have virtually identical DNA. So you’d think if a set of twins both sent in a DNA sample for genetic ancestry testing, they’d get the exact same results, right? Not necessarily, according to a recent investigation by the…
The first time someone asked me if my novel, “Talent,” had “screen potential,” I was living in Los Angeles. I thought the question was a quirk of the place—a city where most writers are screenwriters and lots of people are…
Novak Djokovic has won the Australian Open men’s singles title by beating Rafael Nadal 6-3 6-2 6-3 in the final in Melbourne. A fast-starting Djokovic drew first blood in the final by taking the opening set against Nadal. The expectation…
The pledge comes after Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said late last week that Brussels is finalising efforts to set up an alternative money payment channel to facilitate business transactions with Tehran amid the…
