By Alvin E. Roth
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Every day, 33 people disproportionately people of color die in the U.S. as they wait for organ transplants. Most of these deaths, and the suffering that precedes it, are preventable. Given that Covid-19 causes organ failure, the problem is only going to get worse.
The majority of people currently waiting for organ transplants need kidneys. As people languish on transplant waiting lists, Medicare now spends $36 billion each year on dialysis, which acts like an external kidney. Not only would more kidney transplants save lives, each transplant would save taxpayers as much as $1.45 million per person through avoided dialysis.
A conservative nonprofit has refused Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's (D., R.I.) demand that it release the names of its top funders, citing concerns that the senator is not "operating in good faith."
UofSC alumna uses politics, technology to elevate the underestimated
From a dirt road in SC, Jotaka Eaddy builds a career of transformative change
Posted on: April 1, 2021; Updated on: April 1, 2021
Jotaka Eaddy is fond of quoting the words on the University of South Carolina’s seal: Learning humanizes character and does not permit it to be cruel.
For Eaddy, a 2001 political science graduate and the first Black woman elected as the university’s student body president, those words and their promise help explain her life’s story. Her path started in the tiny Florence County town of Johnsonville, South Carolina, where she grew up on a dirt road. She now is the founder and CEO of
How Communist do you have to get before somebody notices? Fri Mar 12, 2021
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. In 2013, the Puffin Foundation issued a grant for what was described as a Soviet Yiddish Songbook . The CD, later issued as “City of the Future: Yiddish Songs from the Former Soviet Union”, is accurate only in that its songs, like Red Army and The Song of the Collective Farmer, are indeed in Yiddish. Otherwise they’re propaganda for a brutal antisemitic regime that killed countless Jews, including one of the men who wrote the song lyrics, and Yiddish culture.
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Whitehouse has not stopped taking dark money while crusading against it Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse/ Youtube Screenshot
March 10, 2021 2:00 PM
All three witnesses invited by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) to testify at a hearing on the destructive impact dark money has had on the Supreme Court have significant ties to liberal dark money groups.
Whitehouse is scheduled to preside over a Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday afternoon on What s Wrong with the Supreme Court: The Big Money Assault on Our Judiciary. Among the witnesses he called is Ben Jealous, who is currently the president of People for the American Way, a liberal group that does not disclose its donors. Jealous will be joined by Michael Klarman of Take Back the Court, a judicial advocacy group that does not identify its donors, and Lisa Graves of the Center for Media and Democracy, a liberal watchdog group that discloses some donors, but takes a significant portion of its fundi