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  • A Nurse Shares Six Reasons for Health Care Decline

    A Nurse Shares Six Reasons for Health Care Decline0

    Sally* has worked as a nurse in an operating room for more than 30 years. She’s seen horrors most of us can only imagine, gunshot victims, patients maimed beyond belief, the dead from failed surgeries carted off to the morgue. Right now, she’s witnessing the decline of American health care. That decline is taking place

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  • A Note to Politicians: What Average Americans Want

    A Note to Politicians: What Average Americans Want0

    On New Year’s Eve, four of my siblings, their spouses, and I gathered at my sister’s house in Asheville, North Carolina. A table covered with side dishes and hors d’oeuvres, wonderful conversations and reminiscences, and glasses raised at midnight: it was a memorable New Year’s Eve party. The party continued the next morning with more

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  • A Nordic Paradox: Higher Gender Equality, More Partner Violence

    A Nordic Paradox: Higher Gender Equality, More Partner Violence0

    Which countries lead the world in gender equality? If you don’t know the answer to that you must. have been living in North Korea. Everyone else knows that it’s the Nordics: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. On average across these countries, three out of every four working-age women are in employment; gaps between the

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  • A Night Enforcing Immigration Laws on the US-Mexico Border

    A Night Enforcing Immigration Laws on the US-Mexico Border0

    Since the beginning of his presidential campaign, the U.S.-Mexico border has been a focus of Donald Trump’s anger and political appeal. That border is where more than 18,500 of the country’s 19,437 Border Patrol agents work, trying to stop people from crossing illegally into the U.S. For all the heat and headlines around this border,

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  • A New Year’s Chat With the Devil

    A New Year’s Chat With the Devil0

    Ah, New Year’s Eve! It’s a great moment for reflecting on the past, taking stock of the present, and planning for the future. Indulging in the Auld Lang Syne cliché is not unique to humans. The spirit world does the same, or at least it does according to a piece in a 1948 edition of

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  • A New Year’s Wish for Home and Hearth

    A New Year’s Wish for Home and Hearth0

    Recently I moved from a four-bedroom house on 2.5 acres in a rural neighborhood into a two-bedroom apartment in an older home in the middle of town. The apartment offers a dramatic change from the house. Here, for instance, a constant stream of traffic flows within 15 feet of my living room windows. I’m within

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