In the course of their internal negotiations over their planned reconciliation bill, congressional Democrats have debated several...

In 1955, Jonas Salk announced that his polio vaccine was 90 percent effective and safe to distribute to children and adults. After...

The elderly vote is powerful, persistent, and dependable. It has been so for decades, and will continue to be in the foreseeable future....

Before this fall, Daraprim wasn’t anything close to a household name, but this anti-parasitic drug is nothing new. The treatment for...

When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, it undertook a major expansion of Medicaid—a public assistance program that offers...

The United States is all grown up, and the wear and tear is starting to show in all the wrong places. The baby boomers, the largest...

NPR’s consistently excellent Planet Money podcast had a story this week, titled “The Town That Loves Death,” about La Crosse, Wisconsin....

The sequester, as you’ve probably heard, is happening March 1. What is the sequester? To use a (somewhat unfortunate) metaphor, the...

Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act (from Wikimedia Commons) I’ve come to view Paul Krugman as belligerent and repetitive, but he’s...