The people most directly impacted will be the uninsured and those who treat them, says Lindsay F. Wiley, a professor of law and Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Program at the UCLA School of Law.

Like President Biden, Buttigieg connects with voters. He could be the Democrats’ presidential candidate. Or, as a replacement for not-much-loved Vice President Kamala Harris, he could strengthen Biden’s quest for a second term.

His early attacks on the COVID-19 record of Ron DeSantis show that he knows the Florida governor has outflanked him on the populist right — indeed, outflanked him in general — regarding one of the most central issues of the last couple of years.

The real problem is that too many Americans have come to rely on the government for what it was never created to do and less on themselves. Part of this is an outgrowth of the “entitlement mentality” that has turned government from a last resort to a first resource.

Russia’s juggernaut has become a trench army confronting a warrior state backed by wealthy allies providing weapons that work.

As stewards of the historical Washburn Family property and legacy in Livermore, the Washburn Norlands Foundation Board of Trustees posted to the website late last year that $3 million would need to be raised by March 2023 to sustain the foundation. I determined that this was the volunteer experience I’d been searching for — to compel readers to understand the need to rally to this cause.

The new Congress has a chance to notch a major victory for average Americans by going after the real source of high prescription drug costs in this country: middlemen companies known as pharmacy benefit managers.

Times have seldom been harder for the traditional news media. The question is whether they will find a new path or fade into obscurity. Either outcome is possible.

The past few months have been a tumultuous time for Maine’s lobster fishing industry, with new regulations looming and “red listing” of lobster by a watchdog group.