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Today on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer?

This book starts by saying that the 9/11 attacks "occurred at a moment when “the United States found itself at the head of a global economic order that had been founded on a growth surge that was slowly but surely running out of steam."

As the world churns

The series of open letters from human rights activists and former corrections officials aligned with a larger push from Democrats for sweeping clemency action for those in prison.

Health insurance companies are a center-piece in a deeply corrupt, inhumane, and deleterious health system that allows business people to reap lofty profits even if it brings premature death, disability, and pain onto millions of families every day.

That we don't know the answer to this question is the first problem that must be addressed.

The country is now free, yet some remain trapped in the past

A favorite film at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was by far M - Son of the Century directed by the talented UK filmmaker Joe Wright. It’s actually an Italian TV mini-series about the founder of fascism himself, Benito Mussolini.

Are media owners surrendering press freedom?

And what is its significance for the Middle East and U.S. policy