The immigrant physicians holding up U.S. healthcare

The intersection of healthcare and immigration policy is found in the halls of hospitals and clinics across America, where increasing numbers of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) are filling in for doctors who won’t return, and state governments are doing their best to usher IMGs into practice where they’re sorely needed. Help (Badly) Wanted: Foreign Doctors.

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America’s vaccination against equity, and its adverse effects

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Mind the strings: Grok 3 and biased AI puppeteers

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Editorial Cartooning as Visual Storytelling

Political cartoons illustrate the cultural zeitgeist– literally– while also offering critical commentary on it. An editorial cartoonist has a vast arsenal of tools at her disposal, allowing her to create visual metaphors, transmit brief but powerful narratives, elicit emotional responses, and present compelling arguments to persuade, inform, and potentially bolster public opinion. An editorial cartoon.

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Letter to the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee regarding CBP One

Dear Committee Members, specifically Chairman Green, I would like to know why, in numerous published statements, Chairman Green has claimed that Anna Giaritelli published a “groundbreaking scoop showing that the criminal cartels had hijacked the CBP One app using virtual private networks (VPNs), and were exploiting the app to make even more money by scheduling.

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Happy not to be on that team

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It’s my Grand Old Party and I’ll lie if I want to (even if it leads to terrorism)

The claim that abortion is baby-murder hasn’t worked. More Americans are now pro-choice than pro-life. Most Americans also support the federal government continuing to fund Planned Parenthood, knowing that some Planned Parenthood clinics provide abortions. There could be many reasons for that. Maybe they know that abortions are only 3% of the services Planned Parenthood.

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In the virtue stakes, reverence leaves empathy at the starting line

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The rich and the poor alike are forbidden to stand on dogs

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Things you might not want to say about hot car deaths

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