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As the world churns

TWU President "“Richie Davis didn’t enhance anything but his ego,” New York City Organizaiton of Public Service Retirees President Marianne Pizzitola told Work-Bites. “Medicare Advantage is known nationally as a predatory health plan."

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."

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

"These two senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins," noted one observer.

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.

The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change

Are media owners surrendering press freedom?

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.

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