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And how it could fizzle.

Following release of the investigative documentary titled ‘Caught in Micro Debt’ by internationally acclaimed multi-award-winning journalist Tom Heinemann

The long view of economic history says we're in the midst of a huge, unsustainable acceleration. What happens next?

Happy belated Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it! We don’t have an equivalent celebration here in the UK—we’re much more likely to declare a public holiday for all the complaints we’d like to make, and to berate the people and institutions that have disappointed us, like Frank Costanza in Seinfeld.

It is worth emphasizing that a healthy population is needed to produce the workforce that will generate economic returns from new infrastructure capacity. The relationship between health and economic dynamism runs in both directions, and that includes with infrastructure.

Another example of how the US health care system fails patients that could be treated.

Alexander Roodman was packing up his room, preparing for a gap year before college, when I met him at his family's Washington, D.C., townhouse.

The healthcare system is still failing millions of Americans from the time they are children, experts and advocates say.

Dr. Mai Pham left a corporate career to spark change in a system that is failing millions of Americans with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Alexander Roodman was packing up his room, preparing for a gap year before college, when I met him at his family's Washington, D.C., townhouse. The