A friend of mine boarded a plane for Israel over the weekend. On campus at Harvard, where Shabbos attends, many of his fellow students vehemently disagree about who is to blame. A week ago Saturday, hours after Hamas terrorists slaughtered more Jews in a single day than any previous day since the Holocaust, 30 student organizations at Harvard signed onto a letter saying Israel was “entirely responsible” for the attack.
Ronald Brownstein: "Representative Jim Jordan may or may not break down the last few Republican holdouts who blocked his election as House speaker yesterday. But the fact that about 90 percent of the House GOP conference voted to place him in the chamber’s top job marks an ominous milestone in the
A bitterly divided Congress managed to keep the federal government running for several more weeks, while House Republicans struggle again to choose a leader. Meanwhile, many people removed from state Medicaid rolls are not finding their way to Affordable Care Act insurance, and a major investigation by The Washington Post attributes the decline in U.S. life expectancy to more than covid-19 and opioids. Lauren Weber of The Washington Post, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews physician-author-playwright Samuel Shem about “Our Hospital,” his new novel about the health workforce in the age of covid.
A bitterly divided Congress managed to keep the federal government running for several more weeks, while House Republicans struggle again to choose a leader. Meanwhile, many people removed from state Medicaid rolls are not finding their way to Affordable Care Act insurance, and a major investigation by The Washington Post attributes the decline in U.S. life expectancy to more than covid-19 and opioids. Lauren Weber of The Washington Post, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews physician-author-playwright Samuel Shem about “Our Hospital,” his new novel about the health workforce in the age of covid.
As House Republicans struggle again to decide who will lead them, the clock is ticking on a short-term spending bill that keeps the federal government running only until mid-November.