New York Times

Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter

by Anne Case and Angus Deaton

What the economic statistics obscure in the averages is that there is not one but two Americas—and a clear line demarcating the division is education

Washington Post

An Epidemic of Chronic Illnesses Is Killing Us Too Soon

by Joel Achenbach, et al.

After decades of progress, U.S. life expectancy—long regarded as a singular benchmark of a nation’s success—peaked in 2014 at 78.9 years

The Atlantic

The Republican Betrayal of PEPFAR

by Peter Wehner

How did one of President George W. Bush’s signature triumphs become a conservative target?

Wall Street Journal

The World Needs New Antibiotics, but the Business Model Is Broken

by Dominique Mosbergen

New drugs to defeat ‘superbug’ bacteria aren’t reaching patients

Nature

Early-Childhood Linear Growth Faltering in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

by Jade Benjamin-Chung, et al,

Globally, 149 million children under 5 years of age are estimated to be stunted

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