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Over-the-counter hearing aids can’t come soon enough

It has been five years since Congress ordered federal regulators to develop regulations that will allow for hearing aids to be sold over the counter. Yet people today still can’t purchase them. A bipartisan group of senators wants to change that. In April, a quartet led by Chuck Grassley, ...

Wildland firefighters need funding, support to fight fire with fire

As children in northern Illinois, my siblings and I hardly considered collecting leaves from our yard a chore. The promise of lighting the pile on fire and seeing it go up in flames at the end of the day was a reward. My love of fire has remained a core value over the years, influencing my ...

How ‘buy America’ will hurt America’s infrastructure

In the six months since President Biden signed the landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directing a trillion dollars of government investments in transportation systems and high-speed internet access, federal agencies have begun rolling out the rules that will govern thousands of projects. ...

We’re all more like Amber and Johnny than we’d like to believe

It’s tabloid fodder at its most primal. But the case reflects our own natural, moral minds. If you spend any time in our most esteemed forums for debate and civil discourse — YouTube comment sections and Twitter threads — you get the sense that the case between actor Johnny Depp and his ...

Farewell to easy European money

Earlier this year, sky-high inflation forced the Federal Reserve to slam the monetary policy brakes. The same appears to be happening in Europe, where the European Central Bank (ECB) is being forced to reverse course to contend with inflation at the highest level since the euro’s 1999 ...

Biden’s rationing of Alzheimer’s treatments is just the beginning

The Biden administration just barred most seniors from accessing new treatments for Alzheimer's Disease. The decision doesn't merely cut off a potential lifeline for the roughly one in 10 Medicare enrollees afflicted with this deadly dementia. It also sets a precedent that should terrify ...