Pharmaceutical companies are angry with Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has vowed to force pharma CEOs to publicly answer for why their drug prices are so much higher in the United States than in other nations. Brazenly, the CEOs of Johnson & Johnson and Merck initially refused. An ...

Voters have busy lives — families to care for, jobs demanding their attention, bills to worry about. So, they can be forgiven if they do not closely track their government leaders’ statements and actions. Sometimes voters may find discrepancies between what politicians say and what they ...

Last week, Joe Biden’s presidential reelection campaign fell apart. To be fair, it’s been a long time coming: Biden himself is deeply unpopular by every polling metric, running behind his chief Republican rival, Donald Trump, on nearly every major issue. With the world on fire — war in ...

There are 100 cookies with Shirley Madden’s picture on them in the freezer at Sunrise Terrace Care Center in Winfield, waiting for her extra-special birthday party on Valentine’s Day. Shirley Madden will be 100 years young! But it isn’t any ole picture on the cookies. No. It’s the ...

Martin Niemoller (1892-1984), a German Lutheran pastor, composed a 1946 post-World War II confessional titled “First they came for the Socialists . . ..” The four-line composition explains, in straight-forward language, how the Nazis rose to power by methodically silencing German ...

This plot line could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about upper-class depravity: “Miserly governors refuse to provide gruel for poverty-stricken ragamuffins.” Unfortunately, this is not a novel, but modern-day reality taking place in 15 states, where right-wing ...