Our military has long treated the body as an instrument of collective strength, with individual choice yielding to operational necessity. In the shadow of COVID-era tensions, Secretary Hegseth’s decision to remove the influenza vaccine from the list of required immunizations challenges that tradition, raising a deeper question: not whether the flu shot works, but whether mandating it still serves the mission.
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At a hearing convened this week by the House Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Jason Smith criticized the assembled hospital executives for blocking a relatively straightforward Medicare payment adjustment that could lower program expenditures dramatically and possibly induce lower costs in the private market.
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What the data say about deficits, debt, and reality
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SPAP remains an important resource for many low-income households. However, efforts to control its long-term growth must confront the realities of population aging and the past policy choices that today shape how elderly households increasingly qualify for and receive benefits.
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Co-op City, located (like the Yankees) in the New York City borough known as The Bronx, is the largest co-op apartment community in the City, and indeed in the United States. Built in the 1960s and 70s, it has more than 15,000 residential units in some 35 high-rise buildings, plus a smaller number
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Its decision in Callais finally solves the Goldilocks problem of racial districting.
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There are deep and intractable problems in abundanista-land.
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The Supreme Court should follow Justice Harlan’s lead: Children of illegal aliens are citizens at birth, but children born to pregnant women on temporary tourist visas are not.
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision on a Louisiana racial gerrymandering case that much of the country has been waiting on for more than a year. And the decision it handed down couldn't have been a surprise to anyone following the current Court's decisions of late. The…
Apr 30, 2026
The conservative bloc has dismantled the law that ensures that Black Americans can fully participate in American electoral politics.
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We ask a lot of Chicago police. To walk into situations where people with guns want to hurt us — and to stop them. To find our cars after they’ve been stolen. To protect our children. To see their col...
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The 23rd president’s house museum in Indianapolis combines history and peak preservation.
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Critical minerals will scramble geopolitics.
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Many commentators, even critics of the monarchy, seem delighted at the spectacle.
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The crisis in Sudan is not only about immediate suffering – it is also the result of unresolved political dynamics that continue to drive instability.
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But the UN and US never seem to learn. There have been numerous cycles of peacekeeping and police missions there. Here's why they don't work.