Influenza Kills Healthy Children. So Why Are So Many Parents Blowing Off Kids’ Flu Shots?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At least 179 American children died of flu last year, the highest since 2004, when doctors began reporting confirmed influenza cases to federal authorities. Despite that record number, about one-third of parents in a new poll by the University of Michigan’s C. S. Mott Children’s…
Soybean Exports Have Crashed in 2018
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Apropos of nothing in particular, I thought I’d check in and see how US soybean exports are doing. As you’ll recall, we ship a lot of soybeans to China, but in July China levied a 25 percent tariff on American soybeans in retaliation for our…
The Trump Administration Just Made It Easier to Deport Survivors of Human Trafficking and Domestic Abuse
John Moore/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past two years, the Trump administration has made illegal immigration a top priority, but, much more quietly, it has also been making it increasingly difficult for immigrants to be in the US legally. Now, a small rule change is set to…
Wall Street Is Still Not Happy With the Economy
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Tim Ryan Has a Plan to Win Back the “70-Year-Old Teamster”
Ohio congressman Tim Ryan speaks in Clear Lake, Iowa, on August 10, 2018.Chris Zoeller/Globe-Gazette via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, 16 Democrats released an open letter pledging to vote against Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House. The move didn’t come as much of a surprise. Many…
Here’s What the Blue Wave Looked Like in California
Charlie Neuman/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As of last Monday, California Democrats had flipped 3 of the 10 Republican-held congressional seats they’d targeted in this year’s election. After a week of unhurried vote counting, they’ve now flipped six—including every seat in Orange County. And the final(ish) vote counts confirm just…