Vol. 151 No. 2926, July 2022
Index
- Medicare Myths and Misconceptions.
- YOUR LIFE.
- Summertime and the Living Is Easy... if Decluttered.
- Hiring and Working with a Contractor.
- Prospecting for Conservative Stability: "Reversing the excesses of the 'woke' left and revenging imagined conspirational defeats may provide some satisfaction, but they will not sustain a winning coalition.".
- Time to Lay Siege to Our Institutions: "We will never win if we play by the rules set by the elites who are undermining our country.".
- COLLEEN HRONCICH AND SOLOMON CHEN.
- The Path to VIOLENCE: "While understanding why mass shootings occur is important identifying how to stop them requires a focus on how individuals escalate from grievance to the attack.".
- Death for Those Who Inflict Death: "When law breakers and murderers are not held accountable for their behavior, law-abiding citizens are cheated.".
- Prolonged Grief Disorder: "... We should stop fretting that we are grieving too long for someone who has passed to satisfy pseudo-psychiatric norms as to how long we should be upset by the death of a loved one.".
- CRIME: "People want to be safe, and people want policies that are effective.... Right now, we're just getting the worst of everything.".
- UNTHINKABLE! "As a constitutional law professor, [Rep. Jamie] Raskin understood the 'mathematical-political tricks' embedded in the Electoral College, and he shared with Speaker Nancy Pelosi concern about [Donald] Trump's potential Electoral College 'gambits.'".
- Inflation Invades Our Privacy: "... It is not just our wallets that are paying the price. For more than 50 years, inflation has helped the U.S. government increase surveillance under the Bank Secrecy Act by silently increasing the activities banks must report in their effort to counter financial crime.".
- Keeping It Real-and Relevant: "[Thomas] Sowell has spent his career putting truth above popularity. We need 100 more just like him.".
- Real Reform Still Unfolding: "Although there is good work being done across the country and there is evidence that these efforts are succeeding, there still is much to do. For there to be widespread change, equity needs to be ingrained into all our systems and institutions. ... Although we are not where we had hoped to be after the [George] Floyd killing shook our country to its core, it never is too late to strive for a better America.".
- An Unforgettable Forgotten Story: "No white journalist ever had tried to live as a Negro--the polite term then in use--in Jim Crow America"... until Ray Sprigle.
- THE OLDER WE GET... "[Baby boomers'] impact on long-term care, which may be the most explosive dimension of old-age dependency, still lies over the horizon.".
- PLACE OF DEATH: "Although older individuals are much more likely to die from COVID-19, younger individuals are more likely to die at home from the disease.".
- Keep Government Out.
- All-in-One Approach to Diabetes Treatment.
- Breakthrough Nanotherapy for Diabetics: "The concept of enhancing and controlling side effects of drugs via nanodelivery is not a new one... 'but here we're not enhancing an effect. [Instead], we are generating a totally different cellular response.'".
- WHAT A DISASTER! "... A thorough review [of a disaster] not only confirms that people have died, but it can expose how people died. There is a difference.".
- THE FUTURE OF FOOD: No lives at "steak": a cultured burger, vertically farmed lettuce, and genetically modified tomato. Would you bite?
- The Environment Gets the Right-of-Way: "... While they may not seem like a lot of space, ROWs collectively account for nearly 10,000,000 acres of land in the U.S....".
- REPTILIAN RESCUE: "Reptiles are not often used to inspire conservation action, but they are fascinating creatures and serve indispensable roles in ecosystems across the planet.".
- Time Traveling Through Yellwstone: Yellowstone National Park marks its sesquicentennial this year. So, what was it like for the first white men to see a landscape the Crow Indians called "Land of Burning Ground"?
- Compassion for Modern-Day Parents: "For many parents, the world is a terrifying place of shape-shifting relativism, where even trusted authorities may be the enemy, and friends may turn on you in a flash if you seem to be on the wrong side of some issue.".
- Stuff Happens.
- Why Can't We Heed the Human Calling? "Human beings are in danger of being devastated by the monster of human ability. They are not able to close the Pandora's box they opened with the combination of the market system and modern technology.".
- Therapeutic Improvisation: "Therapy is the art of capitalizing on disciplined spontaneity to make more interesting music and art together.".
- LET YOUR BROTHER WIN: "My scowl displayed my protest at the unfairness. Mom's shrug was her way of asking me to keep my perspective: What was more important, winning or helping her keep the peace?".
- The Rough Road to Transformation: "We all want to stay safe, but playing it safe is not actually changing.".
- SOVIET UNION ON THE BRINK: Here is a personal eyewitness account of life in a provincial Russian city during a remarkable period in world history just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and before the names Putin and Russia became inseparable.
- Who Would Emerge as the Mafia's Boss of Bosses? "The Castellammarese War ... was short-lived, but left the sidewalks awash with blood and the city littered with bodies of the fallen.".
- Movie Music with a Twist: "... Have you ever considered the musical misdirection of songs inspired by movies?".
- Where to Find Champs & MVPs.
- 25 for the Ages.
- National Recording Reqistry's Newest Class: "The latest selections [named to the Registry] span from 1921 to 2010. They range from rock, pop, R&B, hip-hop, and country to Latin, Motown, jazz, and recordings of history as it happened.".
- A Half-Century to Ponder Watergate.
- WHAT'S NEW?
- Supreme Reasoning: "... Three generations of women... believe, or pretend to believe, that having a living person torn out of their bodies is a form of self-control.".