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Democratic senators say they bungled border security in 2024

TheHill.com 

Democratic senators are privately acknowledging their party committed “political malpractice” by bungling the issue of border security, which they view as a driving factor behind President-elect Trump’s sweeping victory and their loss of four Senate seats. Democratic senators had a long and intense conversation about what went wrong in this year’s election during a recent...

Ranking the Democrats: Here's who the party could nominate next as president

TheHill.com 

Democrats are licking their wounds after Vice President Harris’s defeat to President-elect Trump, but already are looking toward who might lead their party in a 2028 presidential contest. It’s a fight that looks wide open. The certainty is that Trump himself will not be on the ballot, since the Constitution limits him to two terms....

The Cowboy Clothing of ‘Yellowstone’

VOGUE.com 

The costume designer of the hit television show Yellowstone—now in its final season—goes into the brands that make up authentic westernwear.

Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV

The New Republic 

The year is 1998. While antiviral drugs to treat HIV had been approved a decade earlier, only five out of 33 million people who carried the virus were receiving the life-saving treatment. Nowhere was the situation worse than in South Africa. The country had the highest global prevalence of the disease with nearly one in five people infected and 200,000 children orphaned.

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The Tragedy of Ryan White

The New Republic 

A decade ago, in a graduate seminar on “problems” in the history of medicine, my classmates and I began noticing something we came to call “the AIDS epilogue.” A great many books by historians of public health and medicine, it seemed, ended by invoking a condition that had not previously received much focus in their pages: HIV/AIDS. A pathbreaking book on the spread of germ theory in the early 1900s, for instance, concluded with a discussion of how AIDS “has exposed the worst aspects of our modern-day... Читать дальше...

Fat cells have a 'memory' of obesity, study finds

LiveScience 

Most people who lose weight through dieting will see it creep back up, leading to a cycle of "yo-yo dieting" that's hard on the body. A new study suggests fat cells keep a memory of previous weight gain, which may help to explain why this happens.