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Democratic California State Sen. Monique Limón recently introduced the California Community Reinvestment Act, SB 1176, a bill that aims to increase lending to communities of color and low- to moderate-income communities. This is a laudable goal, as for years discrimination... Read More

It is no secret that people around the world are facing unprecedented challenges. And with each global news event, division and disinformation are amplified, risking pushing us further apart from one another. Challenges, however, provide opportunities, and today we have... Read More

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is bad. It’s bad for a multiplicity of reasons. Not least among them, as Western media has recently caught on, are the global impacts that a Russian war in Ukraine has on wheat, corn, and... Read More

Half of Florida’s violent crimes go unsolved. When serious property offenses are added, the overall crime “clearance rate” plummets to 25%. Sadly, Florida is typical, according to FBI statistics. In 2020, investigators cleared barely half the nation’s murders. In Georgia,... Read More

Georgia has been named the top state for doing business for eight years in a row. As a business leader, I’m proud of the state’s commitment to economic growth and development. But as a community member and leader, I am... Read More

As the impact of the omicron variant of COVID-19 appears to wane, the U.S. is entering the third year of the pandemic and its disruptions are a fact of life in the fabric of our daily lives. The trouble is,... Read More

I love the Olympics, but the 2022 games reinforced how unsafe the system is for young athletes. During the 2022 Games, we witnessed several new and shocking accounts of abuse that current athletes had endured prior to and during the... Read More

A report was released this week from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a collective of 270 authors from 67 countries that annually assess the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and human communities. The report — which is... Read More

This week the World Health Organization held a webinar to discuss the launch of its second report on the Global Evidence Review on Health and Migration, which examines access to health care for migrants and refugees under current health policies... Read More

New findings from researchers at the University of Bristol show that those infected with COVID could have different variants hidden in different parts of the body, as if the virus is playing an ultimate game of ‘hide and seek’ with... Read More

A new preprint study from New York State Department of Health shows that the Pfizer vaccine did not prevent infection and hospitalizations in kids up to age 11 as effectively as it did for older age ranges, including those aged... Read More

This week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a decision regarding a patent dispute about who the first scientists were to invent the use of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in eukaryotic cells.  The dispute is... Read More

Earlier this year, the Biden administration stepped up prevention efforts by promising to provide 500 million COVID-19 tests to Americans, with up to four free tests per household.  Data collected through the start of this month shows that more than... Read More

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a new warning that the invasion happening in the Russia/Ukraine region may increase the risk of cyberattacks in the U.S. health system.  “Every organization in the United States is at risk from... Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic is our greatest test to find solutions to reshape education, accelerate workforce development and reimagine the future of work. Currently, our education models are based on the technology of the 15th century printing press and Eurocentric ideology... Read More

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania Republicans have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a state court-approved congressional map, arguing a Democrat-controlled state supreme court exceeded its authority by imposing its own choice of map without the legislature's approval. In an... Read More

My small biopharma company is developing a drug to treat a rare, fatal and presently incurable disease that afflicts one in 70,000 children. We are working around-the-clock to test our medicine and get it approved by the Food and Drug... Read More

On March 1, President Joe Biden will deliver the first State of the Union address of his presidency. After one year in office, the speech will come as his administration and lawmakers on Capitol Hill debate key questions over how our economy... Read More

Workplace misconduct often takes place behind closed doors in secret. Or in some cases, in text messages and emails. Take the case of former Las Vegas Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden, who was revealed to have shared misogynistic, homophobic and... Read More

Politics in America feels more divisive than ever. These political divisions even impact our schools, where some politicians think traditional schooling is good, while others think nontraditional schooling is bad. At our schools, we’ve learned to think deeply beyond simple... Read More

Last month, Twitter banned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. In a statement posted on GETTR, Greene called on conservatives to "leave Twitter now." At a time when many Republicans are decrying the "monopoly" power of... Read More

Interest in antitrust enforcement has gained considerable steam in recent years, primarily driven by the rise of enormous tech-centric companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook. President Biden’s appointment of aggressive enforcers like Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission and Jonathan... Read More

There is an ancient African American proverb that we’re all familiar with from t-shirts to internet memes: “We tried to tell y’all.” Of course, it gives our ancestors heartburn whenever it’s repeated because, while we learned the proverb, we didn’t... Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month authorized the marketing of two combusted, filtered cigarettes as modified risk tobacco products. The products, 22nd Century Group Inc.’s “VLN (Very Low Nicotine) King” and “VLN Menthol King,” which produce all of the smoke... Read More

Whether it’s transmission lines going up in flames during California wildfires or the statewide power outages that plagued the state of Texas during its unprecedented winter storm, there is no doubt the U.S. energy grid needs an upgrade. An outdated... Read More

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When a process occurs once every 10 years, perceptions of old wounds can lead to very long memories. A case in point is playing out in South Carolina, where Republicans in the state legislature are seeking to... Read More

Health care reforms that make medicines more affordable for patients and encourage discovery of powerful new medicines are possible. We’re nearly there: If Congress were to fix some counterproductive flaws, the drug pricing provisions in the Build Back Better Act... Read More

Our government is supposed to protect us, that is the bare minimum of what the American people expect from their lawmakers. Which is why the recent push for deregulation across the nation is troubling. The 1970s and 1980s brought a... Read More

Democracies around the world face a growing number of challenges. Authoritarianism is resurgent in many countries. Bad actors are challenging and undermining global rules and norms on every continent and in many international institutions. COVID-19 continues to tear at the... Read More

WASHINGTON — It wasn’t even the top headline in The New York Times the day after the decision was announced. That distinction went to the death of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who had died at age 64 after suffering... Read More