Guido Mieth/DigitalVision/Getty Images Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB), which has narrowly passed in the House and now moves into the Senate, contains a multitude of cuts to social programs that will negatively affect millions of families to the tune of billions of dollars. But one provision, so-called “Trump Accounts” seeks to help families...
Nathan Posner/Shutterstock On Monday, Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert Kennedy published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal announcing a change that will profoundly affect vaccination efforts in the U.S.: the unprecedented dismissal of all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). “Vaccines have become a divisive issue in American...
NickyLloyd/E+/Getty Images In some ways, it feels as though COVID has been a part of our lives forever. But in fact it’s only (“only”) been five years. While those years have been long indeed, in terms of scientific research and discovery, it’s the proverbial blink of an eye compared to our research on more established...
SolStock/E+/Getty Images Last Week, Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) — a wide-ranging, 1,000-page domestic policy bill that would affect everything from taxes to SNAP benefits to Medicaid and more — eked through the House with just one vote to spare. Among the “50 Wins” touted in the legislation by the White House (many...