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.
Medicare drug-price negotiations are on: Seniors could soon get a big break on drug prices
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.
Countdown to Dallas
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
08/02/2019
Publication date for the next book from WWR's Paul Brandus - "Jackie: The In-Between Years" (covers the 5-year period between Jacqueline Kennedy's marriages to JFK & Onassis) - is May 5. Post Hill Press sales/distrbution by Simon & Schuster. Here: Dec 6, 1963 - the day Jackie left the White House for good
02/10/2019
This Day, 1961: This iconic JFK photo is often misinterpreted. It is usually assumed that Kennedy was deep in thought, burdened with a grave Cold War crisis. Actually, he was just reading a newspaper. He had a bad back and often worked standing up (Photo/George Tames, NY Times)
10/22/2018
After the 2010 red wave that gave Repubs control of the House, I asked President Obama why Dems don't vote in midterms. "I don't know," he said. "But we're gonna find out." But they didn't vote in 2014, either. What about now? Latest column from WWR's Paul Brandus
Obama endured midterm 'shellackings' as president. Could he help fuel a blue wave now?
Democrats have midterms momentum, but remember 2016 and don't get comfortable. Blue wave hinges on women, millennials and Hispanics actually voting.
07/03/2018
Latest column by WWR's Paul Brandus for / : compared to other presidents - Adams, Lincoln (yes, really) and Nixon, to name but a few - Trump's treatment of the press has so far been more bark than bite
When it comes to the press, Trump has been more bark than bite
Trump’s attacks on the media are not unprecedented.
06/11/2018
Trump's loud mouth and bluster has burned bridges elsewhere, but could possibly pay off in Korea. Latest column by Paul Brandus for and
Trump’s bluster may just pay off in Korea
Trump deserves credit for taking a new approach in dealing with one of the most dangerous problems on the planet: North Korea and its deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons, writes Paul Brandus.
05/18/2018
The next battle over guns could involve the tax man. Latest column by WWRs Paul Brandus
The next battleground in the gun debate may be taxes
Guns and ammunition could be increasingly seen as an undertapped source of revenue, writes Paul Brandus.
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