Apr 12 Watch Outlining Prospects, Implications of Hostile Action From North Korea Outlining Prospects, Implications of Hostile Action From North Korea… Continue watching
Apr 12 Vicious Sea Creature Sees in Dazzling Color A mantis shrimp peers from its burrow in the Bismarck Sea in Papua New Guinea. Photo by David Doubilet/ National Geographic/ Getty Images. We're a little late to the party here, but if you haven't yet read this comic… Continue reading
Apr 12 Social Security Advocate: Obama’s Budget Is ‘Bad Policy. Bad Politics.’ The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare rallied at the White House on April 9, 2013, to protest a provision of the president's budget proposal. Max Richtman stood in the bright sunshine steps from the… Continue reading
Apr 12 The Day Polio Began Losing Its Grip on America By Dr. Howard Markel Elvis Presley receives the Salk polio vaccine in 1956. Awareness about the vaccine led to the end of polio in the U.S. Most babies today still receive the injection. Photo courtesy of March of Dimes. April 12, 1955, was… Continue reading
Apr 12 Odd Couple or Old Friends? OFA Steps into Fair Elections Obama for America volunteers work in Colorado on a 2011 day of action. Obama for America has been restarted as Organizing for Action. Photo by Flickr user Barack Obama. It's house party time in New York. Supporters… Continue reading
Apr 12 Britons Divided Over Thatcher’s Legacy Margaret Thatcher's death on Monday rehashed the debate about the former British prime minister's legacy. Headlines from "The Woman Who Divided a Nation" to "The Woman Who Saved Britain" piled on newsstands across London. Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images… Continue reading
Apr 12 Does Obama Have it Right or Wrong on Social Security? By Paul Solman By Paul Solman Staffers pick up their copies of the President's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget at the Senate Budget Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 10, 2013. Photo By Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images. Today we present… Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch ‘Shepherd in Combat Boots:’ Korean War Army Chaplain Awarded Medal of Honor 'Shepherd in Combat Boots': Korean War Army Chaplain Awarded Medal of Honor… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch Hospitals Dispute Failure to Disclose Clinical Study Risks for Premature Infants Hospitals Dispute Failure to Disclose Clinical Study Risks for Premature Infants… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch Book Traces History and Decline of Political Power as Power of ‘No’ Rises Book Traces History and Decline of Political Power as Power of 'No' Rises… Continue watching