Doubts, Death and Democracy: Mikhail Gorbachev’s Bitter-Sweet Legacy

By Deborah L. Armstrong

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, is dead at the age of 91.

He survived 31 years longer than the country of his birth, which he dissolved in 1991 despite a referendum of the people, who overwhelmingly voted to keep the USSR up and running.

Doubts, Death and Democracy: Mikhail Gorbachev’s Bitter-Sweet Legacy

Medicare officials say costly Alzheimer’s drug to blame for large monthly jump in premium

Medicare officials say costly Alzheimer’s drug to blame for large monthly jump in premium

The increase guarantees that health care will gobble up a big chunk of the recently announced Social Security cost-of-living allowance, a boost that had worked out to $92 a month for the average retired worker, intended to help cover rising prices for gas and food that are pinching seniors.

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