Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan sent emails last month asking donors for $3, $5, maybe $10 — just enough to fill up his tank so he could visit isolated parts of the state. Heartstring-tugging stuff. The kind of pitch that makes you picture a guy thumbing through his glove box for…
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Health
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Americans Dying Younger: The Generation That Lost the Longevity Lottery
For most of the 20th century, a quiet assumption ran through American life: each generation would outlive the one before it. Better medicine, better food, better lives. It held true, decade after decade, until it stopped. A new analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds…
Health
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AI Doctors Are Coming to America — And They Don’t Carry Malpractice Insurance
There’s a push underway to bring AI doctors into American medicine, and it’s got Trump’s backing. Not AI-assisted diagnostics or decision support tools — actual AI systems making medical calls, triaging patients, prescribing treatments. The kind of thing that sounds like science fiction until you realize venture capital has already…
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When Mistrust Becomes Policy: Republicans, Doctors, and the Widening Health Divide
A banner encouraging flu vaccines hangs outside a clinic in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Nobody’s stopping to read it. Republican healthcare mistrust has moved from fringe talking point to measurable public health crisis — and a new study published in Nature Human Behavior shows the gap between how liberals and conservatives engage…
Politics
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Friendships Are Ending Over Politics at Record Rates. The Data Shows Who’s Leaving.
Friendships have ended. Family dinners turned silent. Coworker’s small talk dried up. For 37 percent of Americans, politics didn’t just create tension — it ended relationships entirely. A study published in PNAS Nexus surveyed 3,791 people across four datasets and found that political breakups now affect more than a third…
International Relations
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America’s Allies Are Reviewing the Relationship — And the Silence Says Everything
America’s allies are quietly reviewing their relationships with the United States, according to Politico’s latest reporting. Not dramatic breaks. Not public denouncements. Just be careful, methodical reassessments of what American partnership actually means when democracy itself becomes a variable instead of a constant. The conversations happening in European capitals, in…
Culture
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We’re the Only Country Where More People Think Their Countrymen Are Immoral
Americans Think Their Neighbors Are Trash — And We’re the Only Country That Does Pew Research surveyed 25 countries and asked people to rate the morality of their fellow citizens. In 24 of them, optimism won. More people said their compatriots had good morals than bad ones. Then there’s us….
Canada
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We Turned Our Neighbor Into an Enemy
The US-Canada relationship just fell off a cliff, and if you grew up straddling that border as I did — Farmington Hills, Michigan, twenty minutes from Windsor — this one lands differently. Not abstract. Not academic. Personal. Politico just dropped five charts documenting how thoroughly we’ve torpedoed the longest undefended…
Culture
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Doomsday Clock 2026: Closer to Catastrophe, Further From Solutions
The Doomsday Clock 2026 announcement landed this week with all the fanfare of a fire alarm in an empty building. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the clock four seconds closer to midnight. We’re now at 85 seconds — the closest humanity has ever been to self-inflicted annihilation since…
Culture
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Two Dead, Three Weeks. The Civil War Simulation Didn’t Account for Body Count
I don’t know when “war gaming” stopped being a Pentagon basement thing and became a university ethics department warning label — maybe right after someone decided “defensive shots” was a better phrase than “we killed a guy” — but here we are anyway. In October 2024, the Center for Ethics…