Outside the Beltway

The recommended precautions are severe. Are they being followed?

These decisions should be made by professionals.

Fears have reduced demand for public transit.

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.

Republicans are half as likely to take the outbreak seriously.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

This is bigger than President Trump’s incompetence.

What’s new isn’t necessarily what’s most important.

A promising new study.

Suicide has become a bigger threat to members of the military and veterans than combat. That needs to change.

We shouldn’t need bad arguments to sell good policies.

Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.

An Oklahoma state court Judge has handed down what many are hailing as a landmark ruling related to the opioid crisis, but there’s reason to be skeptical about his conclusions.

A great public intellectual, pioneering blogger, and all-around good man is gone.

The Ebola outbreak that began last year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is still a problem, and still threatening to spread.

Hospital phone lines are being overwhelmed.

After coming under attack from within his own party, former Vice-President Joe Biden has changed his position on the Hyde Amendment.

Former Vice-President Biden has come under fire for his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment.

A new report indicates that Russian social media trolls are involved in spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the United States and elsewhere.

Thanks largely to anti-vaccination propaganda, the Centers for Disease Control reports that measles cases in the U.S. are at a level unseen in a quarter century.

Despite seemingly ideal conditions, Green Mountain Care was an absolute debacle.

Some vaccines lose effectiveness more quickly–and others last much longer—than previously understood.

Bernie Sanders and other advocates focus on insurance companies and drug companies. But that’s not where the money is.

As Democrats at the state level seek to limit the ability of parents to decline to vaccinate their children. they are facing resistance from Republican colleagues.

The decision to hand Democrats a victory and step on the good news from the Mueller report apparently came from the very top.

What would it mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

Tragedy piled on top of tragedy.

Mandatory vaccination laws raise personal liberty issues that ought to be taken seriously, but in the end, public health concerns weigh heavily in favor of laws mandating vaccination.

The response to the latest outbreak of the Ebola Virus has both succeeded and failed in several response.

A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

Luke Perry’s death is a sad reminder.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

Pensions and health care costs for the elderly are crowding out other vital spending.

Does trash become treasure with time?

One of the strongest climate regulations in the country is almost certainly unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor contends that a recent change in tax law unravels the basis for the Supreme Court’s upholding of Obamacare.

Despite aggressive vaccination efforts, measles cases surged worldwide last year. You can “thank” that anti-vaccination movement.

The former Governor and Presidential candidate, and current Ambassador to Russia, reveals his diagnosis of Stage One Melanoma.

Science can’t precisely locate gender but it’s neither fully biological nor fully genetic.

Measles cases are on the rise in Europe due to the fact that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, people still believe the lies of the anti-vaccination movement.

Thanks in large part to an aggressive public health education program and vaccination, Australia is on course to effectively eradicate cervical cancer.

As Hurricane Florence bears down on the East Coast, most people are listening to orders to evacuate, but some people aren’t.

An Ebola outbreak that started last month in Central Africa appears to be contained. You can thank an aggressive vaccination campaign for that.

There are twice as many suicides as homicides in America.

Days after designer Kate Spade killed herself, depression has claimed another celebrity.

An aggressive worldwide vaccination program has brought us to the point where we may soon be able to declare the eradication of Polio. That is a great thing and another argument against the anti-vaxxers.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a major urban center.

A surprise announcement about the First Lady.