Trump Renominates FCC’s Ajit Pai To 5-Year Term

Looks like Ajit Pai passed his audition: President Trump today renominated the FCC chairman for another term that would expire in mid 2021. His previous five-year term expired last year, but commissioners get to stay for up to a year afterward if they haven’t been replaced.

How Americans really feel about their country on 33 key…

And now with President Trump – who ran an antiestablishment and populist campaign to win the White House – set to give a speech to a joint session of Congress this Tuesday, we’re taking a look at how they view some of the big issues facing the country, as well as the major institutions that make up American political and civic life. The ” General Social Survey ,” a project of the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago , has been tracking several aspects of American life since 1972.

Women really are better doctors, study suggests

If male doctors were able to do as well as their female counterparts when treating elderly patients in the hospital, they could save 32,000 lives a year, according to a study of 1.5 million hospital visits. A month after patients were hospitalized, there was a small, but significant difference in the likelihood that they were still alive or had to be readmitted to the hospital depending on the gender of the doctor who cared for them, according to the study published in JAMA Internal Medicine .