Let health consumers keep what they save
Trump wants subsidy dollars to go to people, not insurers. It can work if Congress protects the risk pool. The Trump administration has begun mailing $500 checks to about 950,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees in…
A program you haven't heard of is raising drug costs
It’s counterintuitive, but it’s true. A federal program designed to force drug manufacturers to sell prescription medicines at sharply reduced prices to not-for-profit hospitals and other healthcare safety-net providers is actually driving your drug costs…
AI may transform higher education. But educators have been predicting the death of the classroom for centuries.
For months, I have been watching an American Studies professor at a private college in Western New York write about artificial intelligence with the intensity of someone watching a storm approach. He writes about it…
As we approach Indigenous People's Day, is Ancestral Intelligence the AI system that will save us?
Workers at OpenAI and Anthropic are positing that AI might kill us all, even as they argue that the technology’s mathematical super intelligence can rapidly advance scientific discoveries. There is nothing super, nor intelligent, about…
It’s for everyone: Kennedy Center must stay
In 2022, I saw the decorated Americana singer John Doe at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The show was free, part of the Millennium Stage series that allows smaller acts to claim space at…
The future of software engineering: AI doesn't need to be a job killer
I’m 14 years old, and I’ve already built a trading bot, a stock sentiment scanner, and a news aggregator. I didn’t go to a coding bootcamp. I don’t have a computer science degree. I used…
HOA barriers are built in for people with disabilities
Last week marked the 39th anniversary of the closure of Willowbrook State School in New York, a severely overcrowded and unhealthy living environment that impacted thousands of people with developmental disabilities. Yet in the decades…
Suicidal black males must see life beyond their circumstances
A recent CDC study shows that young black males between the ages of 16 and 29 are dying by suicide at higher rates than their white peers for the first time on record. This revelation…
Emergency, emergency: keep Americans out of the ER
Behind the tense dialogue between actors in the foreground of the season three trailer for the HBO Max award-winning series, “The Pitt,” patients on gurneys line the hallway. Scenes of overcrowded, hot, uncomfortable emergency department waiting areas…