Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Saturday, September 12, 2026

A Speech Against Assisted Suicide

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Ethos in rhetoric is an appeal to the speaker's or writer's credibility, character, and authority to sway an audience.  Opposition ...
Monday, May 25, 2026

The Fallen in the Iran War

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Previous posts have discussed Memorial Day .  The United States is in another war, and more Americans have died. At CBS, Kerry Breen repo...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Myths, Misinformation, and Minneapolis

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Besides not knowing what habeas corpus means , DHS Secretary  Kristi Noem  has had problems . Daniel Dale at CNN: Top officials in Presiden...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

"I Feared for My Life, Officer"

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    Many   posts  have  discussed   crime  in the  United States .  Mark Maremont  and  Paul Overberg at WSJ : It’s easier than ever to kill...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Malevolence and Incompetence at HHS

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Many posts have discussed the chaos at the Department of Health and Human Services . Apoorva Mandavilli and Sheryl Gay Stolberg at NYT: Th...
Monday, May 26, 2025

America's War Dead

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  Find more statistics at Statista
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Drug Deaths Plunged in 2024

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Many   posts  have  discussed   substance abuse . David Ovalle at WP : U.S. drug deaths plunged in 2024, according to federal data publishe...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

The Impact of COVID

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Many posts have discussed COVID . Alec Tyson, Michael Lipka and Claudia Deane at Pew: The most significant pandemic of our lifetime arri...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Without Immigration, Shrinkage!

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    Many   posts  have  discussed   population  and   immigration . CBO,  The Demographic Outlook: 2025 to 2055 The size of the U.S. populat...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Alcohol Deaths

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Many posts have discussed substance abuse . Isabella Cueto  and J. Emory Parker at STAT : Alcohol sales per capita went up more from 2019...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Life Expectancy Ticks Up in 2022

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Mike Stobbe at AP: U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn’t close to what it was before the COVID-19 pa...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

American Men and Life Expectancy

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  A release from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health We’ve known for more than a century that women outlive men. But new research ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Education and Overdose

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Many   posts  have  discussed   i inequality  and  higher education . October 6, 2023   David Powell, "Educational Attainment and US Dr...
Friday, October 6, 2023

Behold a Pale Horse

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  Seat belts. Cigarette taxes. Public health investment. Some lawmakers chose to back these policies. Others don’t. Those choices along red ...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

Life Expectancy and Education

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 Anne Case and Angus Deaton:at Brookings: The widening gap in death rates between Americans with and without a four-year college degree sho...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

US Has Fallen Behind in Life Expectancy

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American Journal of Public Health , " Falling Behind: The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy Between the United States and Other Countries,...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Opioid Abuse and Deaths of Despir

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National Institute on Drug Abuse : In 2021, an estimated 2.5 million people aged 18 years or older in the U.S. had opioid use disorder in ...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Memorial Day 2023

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 From CRS: From 2006 through 2021, a total of 19,378 active-duty servicemembers have died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces . Of thos...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Firearm Incident Data

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From KFF: Experiences with gun-related incidents are common among U.S. adults. One in five (21%) say they have personally been threatened ...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Religion and Deaths of Despair

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Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American ReligionTyler Giles, Daniel M. Hungerman, and Tamar OostromNBER Working...