‘Health Care Reform Is Law’ Edition

Staff / Truthdig Mar 23, 2010 Why are Scandinavians so good at murder mysteries? Was Cleopatra really hot? Plus: Stealing your water and the secret deal Obama made to kill the public option. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Study: Older People Need Fewer Zzzs

Staff / Truthdig Feb 2, 2010 Here's another reason why baby boomers are still running various sectors of society: They need less sleep. According to a new study published, fittingly, in the journal Sleep, people in their 60s don't need to snooze for quite as long as their younger counterparts. This may partly explain why Jay Leno is still on the air. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fred Branfman on ‘The Making of an Elder Culture’

BLANK Nov 27, 2009 In Theodore Roszak's spirited new manifesto, he calls on aging baby boomers to rekindle their youthful idealism and remake America. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Getting Old in the Land of Independence

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Jul 2, 2009 As a society, and as individuals, we are woefully unprepared for aging, even when it's our parents. About 34 million Americans provide at least some of the care for frail, aging family members, and yet we don't see it as a normal, predictable part of the life cycle. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Botox Withstands Effects of Age, Recession

Staff / Truthdig Dec 24, 2008 When the global economy takes a serious plunge (i.e., like right now), one would think that such frivolities as facial fillers and Botox would be the first to go from the regimens of even the most image-conscious among us. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The New Longevity

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Nov 20, 2008 Sen. Robert Byrd, 91, announced that he will give up the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee to Sen. Daniel Inouye, 84. The torch has passed to a new generation. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Politico: McCain ‘Desperate’

Staff / Truthdig Aug 31, 2008 As a news source, Politico is seen as leaning slightly right, which makes this report, "6 things Palin pick says about McCain," surely more troubling for Team McCain than if it had run on a less sympathetic outlet. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

No Country for Old Men

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 30, 2008 Would President John McCain forget who made that 3 a.m. call to the special White House phone? I suspect that his aides would not just let him nod off back to sleep, even if they were intimidated by the prospect of one of his alleged intemperate outbursts, but might our septuagenarian president be less than fully focused? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

McCain?s Prompter Problem

Staff / Truthdig Apr 2, 2008 CNN takes a look at John McCain's tendency to flub lines in the middle of speeches because he has difficulty reading the teleprompter. Apparently it's such an issue that his campaign has had to experiment with a range of alternatives. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McCain?s Age Is No Joke

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Mar 27, 2008 At the end of two terms, a President McCain would be 80. Should voters care about that? The question is an important one that shouldn't be avoided just because it's uncomfortable. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

McCain Trails Democrats in Poll

Staff / Truthdig Mar 6, 2008 A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows John McCain losing to either Democrat -- Barack Obama beats him by 12 points while Hillary Clinton wins by half that margin. According to the survey, McCain's age is significantly more troubling to voters than either Obama's race or Clinton's gender. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Life Expectancy Hits All-Time High

Staff / Truthdig Sep 13, 2007 Here's the good news: Significant drops in heart disease and strokes, two leading causes of death among Americans, have contributed to the highest life expectancy in the country's history, which rose to 77.9 years in the latest report released by the National Center for Health Statistics. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )