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When Josef Woodman's shoulder gave out in 2012 — strained from chopping firewood on his farm outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina — he said he was quoted between $2,400 and $3,200 for an MRI at Duke University Hospital.

Lana Linge has $42,000 in credit-card debt, but it's not the giant tab that has her most frustrated.

Sure, Wall Street. Go ahead. Ride the dragon.

When a small group of climate protesters logged on to a Zoom meeting in early July to speak with Citibank's top sustainability executives, their emotions ranged from cautious optimism to guarded skepticism.

Cities may be crowded, dirty, loud, and expensive, but they've always offered one clear advantage over America's rural areas: more money.

Our homes should make us feel safe. A decent home is a refuge from the outside world, a relatively fixed point where people can drop their vigilance. Most of us need the security of home to stay balanced in the face of an unstable, sometimes frightening world.