Our healthcare system is broken in many ways, but there’s an ugly truth that is less talked about. Private health insurance is failing American workers. The prevalence of high-deductible health plans and ever-increasing out-of-pocket costs means that three-quarters of workers are worried about being able to afford the care they need. It’s making the “valued employees” of thousands of American businesses sicker. And when their health issues can’t be put off any longer, it costs the employee and...
The racist abuse directed at Francesca Amewudah-Rivers shows how casting decisions have been hijacked by the culture warsIt’s a young actor’s worst nightmare: to land the role of a lifetime and then find yourself thrown into a media frenzy of vitriol. Over the past two weeks, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers has been the target of an intense and hateful backlash after she was cast in an upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet, opposite Tom Holland’s Romeo. The critical comments made about her casting...
In the late 1950s, Charles “Chuck” Dederich started a drug rehabilitation program out of a storefront in Santa Monica. A recovering alcoholic who’d gotten sober through Alcoholics Anonymous, Dederich offered free treatment to self-described “dope fiends” desperate to kick their deadly habit and go cold turkey. Over the next decade and a half, the group, named Synanon, expanded across the country and evolved into a self-help movement with thousands of members, including many who were not addicts...
Fried chicken is a classic and popular meaty menu item that 79 percent of more than 2,000 consumers craved at least once a week last year in the US.
Sam Barker, from North Carolina, thought she was buying her dream home. But almost everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong. She has now had to pay roughly $50,000 in repairs and is drowning in debt
Given the past few episodes, I was expecting more of a showstopper-style finale in which a bunch more characters would die, or maybe someone would seek some kind of retribution for Mariko’s death. But no. This is more of a denouement of an episode, a processing of things, and a subtle setting-up of the future to come for these characters. Oh, and Yabushige loses his goddamn mind—and head. But first, we’re greeted with the face of an elderly Blackthorne, lying supine and grunting in a big,...
To the editor: Your print edition front page on April 8 had two articles about worsening circumstances in California with regard to climate change and housing, and a piece explaining the reasons conservatives don’t like us. It seems to be the norm for folks (even our friends and members of our family) to think negatively about the state. In reality, it is probable that not living within a budget leads to people thinking California is too expensive; that not knowing people different than we are...
It's possible to view 'A Dream of a Dream' as anticlimax, but 'Shōgun' fans
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) As has been documented by such authorities on U.S. military spending as Winslow T. Wheeler, Robert Higgs, and others, America spends each year around $1.5 trillion for its military but hides at least around $800 billion of it (so as for the U.S. not to be publicly recognized as spending […]
Earlier this week, I wrote about the second content update for SEGA’s Apple Arcade exclusive Sonic Dream Team () that … Continue reading "Sonic Dream Team’s Second Content Update Is Now Live on Apple Arcade Bringing In the Sweet Dreams Zone, Ranked Badges, and More"
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) By overwhelming margins, the American people believe that their Government is corrupt, and the polling shows that the margins who believe this have soared from over 80% in 1976, to over 90% today. The American people overwhelmingly distrust their top ‘elected’ officials. Skepticism of the U.S. Government’s legitimacy is very […]
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