An analysis from the University of Colorado School of Medicine shows patients with Medicaid insurance seeking care in an emergency department may be driven by lack of alternatives instead of the…

In the 1970s, during the heyday of progressive social engineering ideas like forced busing, education began to plummet.  President Jimmy Carter's solution to education woes was to create another…

In every country, centralized government is funded by mandatory public taxation and that means a layer of bureaucracy to go after tax evaders. It can obviously be good for the community - people get…

Sure, post-menopausal women and single men don't need maternity coverage but have to pay for it it anyway. But, the US government can now argue, half of all people are paying for coverage they don't…

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Social authoritarian cultures like San Francisco want to ban things and limit choice but when it comes to healthier kids, it doesn't require creating higher prices, more taxes or political…

A paper in the journal Child Development says that children as young as 3 understand multi-digit numbers more than previously believed and may even be ready for direct math instruction when they…

California academics have found that banning smoking - including inside the home and in entire cities - will reduce smoking. This makes sense. The death penalty also cuts recidivism of criminals by…

In America, where the Obama administration is using surveillance cameras, tracking website visits and monitoring citizens using GPS, many people feel their privacy is slipping away. It's no…

There is culture cold war in America over education. One side says American kids are under-performing because teachers are not using agreed upon criteria and so students don't do as well as some…