A Startlingly Simple Way To Help The Infant Mortality Crisis

The United States may be one of the richest countries in the world, but babies born here are more likely to die in their first year of life than babies in many other developed countries, including Japan, Australia, Canada and the whole of the European Union.  It is a problem that has vexed public health experts for decades, but a new study offers up one tantalizingly simple and effective way to help ensure fewer babies die: Elect more women. “Research has found, again and again,...