While President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is packed with controversial, debt-increasing policies, one lesser-known provision may make considerable inroads to correcting a decades-long student loan policy that has driven expensive programs and large debt burdens for students. The House version of the bill eliminates the Graduate PLUS loan program, which allows graduate students to […]
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged doctors to cut back on opioid prescriptions in 2016, Charles LeBaron thought the advice made sense. LeBaron, a physician who was a CDC medical epidemiologist for nearly three decades, believed doctors had been too loose with pain medication, contributing to a dramatic increase in opioid-related […]
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning minors from accessing certain kinds of controversial gender-transition treatments. The lawsuit over the case hinged on whether the state’s ban on hormones, puberty blockers, and surgical interventions violated the Equal Protection Clause and required a stricter standard of scrutiny than the one a previous appeals […]