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Private health insurance corporations are trying to trick seniors into signing up for Medicare Advantage. It's not better.

Explore what makes polio so dangerous, what is causing the 21st century resurgence of cases, and how we can eradicate the disease.

Based on the true story of two boys imprisoned in a juvenile detention facility that covered up a long history of abuse

Benedict Cumberbatch read this remarkably precient letter at Letters Live at London's Royal Albert Hall on 12th December 2024.

25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee is an artistic statement from the international community about human displacement

Santa and his workshop are, like America, having a bumpy sleigh ride transitioning to the incoming Trump administration. Elon Musk's DOUCHE program makes it worse.

BBC reporters are in open revolt over the bias in BBC management in its Palestine coverage

Written and recorded in 1962 for Bob Dylan's second studio album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the song famously prophecies dark days. See also the Dylan bio-pic A Complete Unknown. 

And why so many of them are shot in Vancouver.

Syrian helicopters dropped chlorine gas on the town of Douma on April 7, 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. The town grieved in silence ... until now.