The 340B drug discount program was intended to help low-income and uninsured patients afford medicine, not create lucrative revenue streams for hospital systems in wealthy communities. However, without oversight, that is what it has become. Congress should return the program to its intended purpose by requiring hospitals to show that the program reaches the vulnerable […]
I have spent much of my life around war. My first combat tour was in Vietnam in 1969-70, where I served as an infantry platoon commander and later a reconnaissance platoon commander. I returned during the 1972 Easter Offensive as an aerial observer and Vietnamese linguist. Later came the evacuation of Americans from Beirut in […]
ABC News Australia’s new documentary, Ukraine’s Stolen Children, released this week, brought me to an image I couldn’t shake: a young child holding a rifle, smiling proudly. The image was jarring for another reason. I had seen it before. Not in Ukraine. In Gaza. The countries are different, the wars are different, and the actors […]
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants broke through Israel’s border and attacked communities in southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages. Most of those killed were civilians. Yet the years since Oct. 7 have highlighted another phenomenon: celebrities increasingly inserting themselves into one of the world’s most complicated conflicts. The attack’s […]
Some of Richard Russo’s most memorable novels have depicted hard times in small towns. His 1986 debut, Mohawk, and 2007’s Bridge of Sighs both played out in fictional blue-collar backwaters in upstate New York, places where the leather industry had ground to a halt but citizens struggled on. For his career-defining, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Empire […]
Since 2016, over 100,000 Canadian lives have been claimed by assisted suicide. The system has created no shortage of tragic tales: a 26-year-old with depression “shopped around” for a doctor to sign off on his death; a disabled man applied for medical assistance in dying because he feared going homeless; multiple veterans have been offered […]
On a quiet Thursday morning in suburban Detroit, 140 preschoolers were settling into their classrooms at Temple Israel’s early childhood center when a Ford F-150 pulled into the parking lot. For more than two hours, the truck sat there, idling. Then, at 12:15 p.m. on March 12, the driver — Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41-year-old […]
Years ago, one of the steadiest people on my team came back from maternity leave changed: irritable, quick to complain, sharp with colleagues for no reason any of us could see. I had no name for it. Only later did I understand I had probably watched perinatal depression unfold, and that nobody around her, including […]
By the time Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office in March 1861, his election already seemed larger than mere politics. It confirmed the collapse of the one-party system, established the ascendancy of another, and precipitated the secession crisis that culminated in the Civil War. In retrospect, Lincoln’s rise can appear almost predestined — a […]
Even among organized crime groups, which are everywhere a subject of fascination, the yakuza hold a special place in the public imagination. Perhaps it is their reputation for honor, their ornate tattoos, the fact that they operate in such an orderly society, or all of the finger cutting. In Yakuza: A 400-Year History of the […]
