Capital Culture: Obama Christmas: No Small Feat

In 1997, we bought a family restaurant and a sports bar on Nantucket Island. We named it after our pet pig, Pudley, and we wanted to make it to be a low-key community place where people of all backgrounds could cheer on the Red Sox, Patriots, and Bruins. Most people know the island as a place where the rich and famous come to relax.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Around this time eight years ago, a whole lot of time went into cobbling together what would come to be known as The Resistance. As the country—and the world, really—started to come to understand the incoming Trump administration’s plans, an unlikely cooperative of folks—feminists, scientists, immigration activists, traditional Republicans—found common ground in their shared sense of dread.

By AMANDA SEITZ WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans with obesity would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning. The costly proposal from the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services immediately sets the stage for a showdown between the powerful pharmaceutical industry and Robert F.

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Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you The EconomistThey’re up to 70% of the American diet. But the US has no policy on ultraprocessed foods CNN InternationalDangerous ultra-processed foods are linked to more than 30 health conditions. Here’s how to identify and avoid them FortuneThe food linked to over 30 different health issues - including cancer and diabetes Surrey LiveUPF: How can industry improve consumer perceptions?