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Goldman Sachs, the American Standard of Living, and the Numbers That Tell a Different Story Published May 23, 2026 David Solomon, the Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, recently offered his assessment of the American economy with the confidence that…

Honored in Rhetoric, Abandoned in Practice The Veteran Suicide Crisis and the Political Choices That Sustain It Based on data from the VA's 2025 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report, covering statistics through 2023. Every day in America, an average…

The number becomes visceral when you translate it into actual human outcomes. Here are some concrete comparisons across different categories. In public health, $1.8 billion is roughly three years of full USAID funding for the DRC at pre-cut levels —…

This story has several layers and they all connect to decisions made over the past 16 months. On May 16, the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a global public health…

This one is very fresh and quite remarkable. Dr. Brian Christine is the Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, a position he assumed in November 2025. He is currently one of the Trump administration's…