West Wing Reports

02/01/2024

No prior administration has been unable to bring the price Americans pay for their meds down - until now. in January and now, possibly ten more big drugs. Consumers could eventually save billions. My latest / column: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/seniors-could-soon-get-a-big-break-on-drug-prices-0d8f784b?mod=search_headline.

The federal government will begin negotiating prices on 10 costly prescription drugs covered by Medicare.

02/03/2023

a Kennedy assassination book that doesn't cover the actual assassination? Nope. Too many of those. My latest book delves into issues like cognitive dissonance - why humans are wired to process data and why we believe certain things. Example: Everyone thinks the Titanic broke in half before it sank, right? But guess who said it didn't? Actual Titanic survivors, including senior officers - as I explain by detailing their testimony before a 1912 Senate commission. History and the way it is told decades later can also skew "conventional wisdom" about other history-making events, such as the death of the president six decades ago.

John F. Kennedy’s fascination with death—particularly his own—and Lee Harvey Oswald’s love of violence and desire for fame made November 22, 1963 p...

10/23/2022

What an ant really looks like (really)
Credit: Nikon Small World/Eugenijus Kavaliauskas

10/21/2022

Poverty rates are falling for everyone - except seniors. Why? My latest / column
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-seniors-are-being-pushed-into-poverty-heres-why-11666314655?mod=search_headline

What happened to the 'golden years'?