A brief history of America's love affair with fluoridated water — and why it's now up for debate
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man widely expected to become a health leader in President-elect Donald Trump's White House, has ...
A brief history of Medicaid and America's long struggle to establish a health care safety net
The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump administration's campaign to slash federal spending. A joint ...
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A brief history of American isolationism
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A brief look at America's history of political violence
An curved arrow pointing right. Many Americans are concerned about the risk of political violence in a tight race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But attacks and intimidation surrounding ...
Food & Wine18d
A Brief History of Fat Fads in America, From Nut Margarine to Beef Tallow
Fast food french fries used to taste better. That's not just me looking at the past through a grease-smeared lens of nostalgia; in 1992, a heart attack survivor named Phil Sokolof sold the ...
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A Brief History of Book Banning in America
Book-banning might seem like a relic of less enlightened times, but the practice is back in a big way. The American Library Association reports (https://www ...
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A Brief History of the National Weather Service
The New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote: "Never before, perhaps in the history of the Weather Bureau, have such general warnings been disseminated as were sent out by the local bureau." Despite the ...