Outside the Beltway

Our fee-for-service system is broken.

A reflection the Trump campaign with helpf from James Baldwin

* if you are an African parasite

Sometimes all we have is the choice of how we react to events.

The GOP caught the car and now doesn’t know what to do.

Trials of mRNA treatments are going well.

New CDC guidelines acknowledge the political realities.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one . . .

Or did it?

He is seeking a new regional consensus.

A tale of slow-moving bureaucracy.

It may actually matter.

They average more than any other occupation and considerably more than their European counterparts.

Forget the cafe latte, screw the raspberry iced tea.

Decades of innovation may be coming to fruition.

They join DC and San Francisco.

A rare man and a rare milestone.

Let him eat cake.

Long after most people returned to normal, public health agencies have given in.

We’re falling further behind for many reasons.

Another sign that the pandemic is now endemic.

They’re still grim but less noticed.

A growing trend has healthcare professionals and communities concerned.

A brief primer on trauma and a link to an interview and paper on being trauma informed

Tips for how to check yourself before you wreck yourself.

A brief foray into looking at Alabama state policy on fighting addiction.

“Cooking with gas” could become a thing of the past. But it probably won’t.

More than a quarter of Americans know something that isn’t true.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

Enrollments are down.

Will anyone listen this time?

A truly bizarre vote.

Traffic deaths are going down in most of the world. Not here.

New details are emerging about possible motivations.

How long rather than how many?

The combination of new variants and increased immunity has changed how the disease presents.

A study of 29 countries shows the impact of the pandemic.

Republicans have died at a far higher rate than Democrats.

Three weeks in, only 4.4 million Americans have gotten the shot.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

Pfizer and Moderna will soon roll out protection against newer strains.

Most Americans are choosing to live a normal life in abnormal times.

The leading public health agency no longer recommends doing things people had already stopped doing.

A disease spreading mostly among gay men is now infecting small children.

Despite every precaution, the 79-year-old leader of the free world is infected.

When belief is more important than facts

With the government throwing its hands up, it’s now up to the citizenry.

A decades-long decline has ended.