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Claude Fischer We’re # last!

If you ask young Americans how good their health is, they’ll tell you it’s great. The U.S. ranks #1 among 17 affluent, western countries in that regard, in the percentage of people aged 5 to 34 who rate their health as good. Unfortunately, when doctors look at people’s actual health, … More >

Rosemary Joyce Landslide, tsunami, or pendulum?

Tuesday’s election produced a torrent of catastrophe rhetoric: Republicans retaking control of the House of Representatives by a solid margin was repeatedly characterized as a tsunami, an earthquake, or a landslide.

What these metaphors have in common– other than representing what happened as disastrous, a point perhaps lost on the commentators, … More >

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