Behind the News: Declining Health; Anticommunism

The Brookings Institute's Carol Graham (https://www.brookings.edu/experts/carol-graham/) (papers here (https://www.brookings.edu/research/longer-more-optimistic-lives-historic-optimism-and-life-expectancy-in-the-united-states/), here (https://www.brookings.edu/research/does-hope-lead-to-better-futures/), and here (https://www.brookings.edu/research/unequal-hopes-and-lives-in-the-u-s/)) on failing health and declining prospects among poor white people in the United States. Then, Kristen Ghodsee (http://web.sas.upenn.edu/ghodseek/), co-author of this article (https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-communism-stance), on the vile uses of anticommunism.