In which Craig Benzine teaches you about the compromises met in ratifying the U.S. Constitution. The United State’s didn’t always have its current system of government. Actually, this is it’s second attempt. Craig will delve into the...

The public is losing faith in democracy, says British MP Rory Stewart. Iraq and Afghanistan’s new democracies are deeply corrupt; meanwhile, 84 percent of people in Britain say politics is broken. In this important talk, Stewart sounds a...

In which Hank and John Green teach you about humanity conquering the Earth. Or at least moving from Africa into the rest of the Earth. As human beings spread out across the world and populations grew, humanity reached a critical mass of...

The Great Wall of China is a 13,000-mile dragon of earth and stone that winds its way through the countryside of China. As it turns out, the wall's history is almost as long and serpentine as its structure. Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen...

When it was ratified in 1789, the US Constitution didn't just institute a government by the people _ it provided a way for the people to alter the Constitution itself. And yet, of the nearly 11,000 amendments proposed in the centuries...

Imagine trying to use words to describe every scene in a film, every note in a song, or every street in your town. Now imagine trying to do it using only the numbers 1 and 0. Every time you use the Internet to watch a movie, listen to...

New ReviewThe Continental Army encamped at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78 and came out a formidable. Visit Valley Forge National Historical Park to walk these hallowed grounds.

New ReviewThis captivating program uses the example of water to illustrate the three different phases in which it exists as a solid, liquid, or gas. Special attention is given to how particles in liquids and gases act thus causing them to behave...

New ReviewHamilton expresses concern over the Articles of Confederation and the need for a stronger federal government. In 1787, the second continental Congress convenes to amend the Articles and create a Constitution. The Virginia Plan sparks...

New ReviewIs Obamacare working? An update on the ACA and some more bad news for believers in the power of taking Vitamin D. This is Healthcare Triage News.

New ReviewWe're back, and it's 2018, y'all. Let's talk about what's happeing with CHiP, taxes and the individual mandate, and the Obamacare exchanges.

Healthcare Triage is a new series from Dr. Aaron Carroll and the team behind Crash Course and Mental Floss Videos. In this episode, Aaron gets a visit from noted hypochondriac John Green, and allays some of his fears about Obamacare. He...

Recently, Ron Johnson (R) of Wisconsin launched an investigation into whether the Medicaid expansion that was part of Obamacare caused America's opioid crisis. Healthcare Triage has looked at the evidence, and we think it's a dubious claim.

We’ve spent the last few weeks talking work requirements for safety net programs, and it’s all been leading up to this: work requirements for Medicaid. By looking at the EITC and TANF, we learned some things. Can these lessons inform...

When people hear about vaccine denial, they most often think about parents who are refusing to vaccinate their children. But there's another type of vaccine refusal, and it's important that we not ignore that, too. Doctors sometimes...

Part four of our six-part series on vaccinations, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation. It turns out, people have been resistant to the idea of vaccines pretty much since vaccines were invented. This...

Every once in a while, we like to take a moment and focus on health systems around the world. Today, we're looking at Taiwan, which made the transition to a single payer system kind of suddenly, and pretty recently.

Maybe the person working near you, the one who dragged himself to work and is now coughing and sneezing, couldn't afford to stay home. Each week about 1.5 million Americans without paid sick leave go to work despite feeling ill. At least...

Senate Republicans are going to give it one more try on repealing and replacing Obamacare. This week, Senators Bill Cassidy (LA) and Lindsey Graham (SC) plan to bring forward a bill to repeal and replace the Afffordable Care Act. It's...

Last week, we argued that the benefits of the Orphan Drug Act are more elusive than commonly assumed. But what are its costs? That's the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.

Yesterday's election results have a lot of impact on health care in the United States. The new Democratic House of Representatives and the ACA, expansion of Medicaid in red states, and medical and recreational marijuana are all affected...

Rates of teen suicide are rising, and rates for girls are higher than any time in the last 40 years. There are a number of ways to address this problem, but why aren't we using evidence based approaches to the problem?

We've got an election coming up here. It's pretty much a dumpster fire. But we've still got a country to run, and a health care system that's far from ideal. There are two main candidates, two main health care reform plans, and we're...

We've been getting a lot of requests to talk about the health care systems of different countries. It's really hard to compress the complexities of each into an episode, but we're going to try. First up is the United States. Others will...