Gilbert Laurie/Photographer’s Choice RF/Getty Images Since 2020, firearms have been the leading cause of death for children in the United States, surpassing accidents (including car accidents), illness, suffocation, and drowning. And now a new study, published in JAMA Pediatrics sheds light on how to improve that grim statistic. Plainly put: stricter gun laws appear to...
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...
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...