1992—In Davis v. Davis, the Tennessee supreme court decides a battle between a divorcing couple over rights to their frozen embryos stored in a fertility clinic. Writing for...
Washington has finally decided to treat pharmaceutical supply chains as a national security risk, introducing new policies to wean America off foreign drug dependence. This strategy has been focused primarily, though not exclusively, on China. The Trump administration recently announced actions that will cut red tape for new drug manufacturing facilities by reforming permitting, reducing […]
Every American high schooler enrolled in a U.S. history course should be able to tell you that when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, the value of cotton grew exponentially. What made Whitney’s invention so innovative was how it made cotton processing more efficient, thus increasing the demand for labor. Students should also be able […]
Prices are about to go up — again — for the 83% of American households with at least one streaming subscription. The culprit behind this price hike, though, lies beyond America’s borders. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) recently tripled the revenue that streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube must set aside to […]
Washington does not typically indict foreign heads of state, deploy carrier strike groups to the Caribbean, and dispatch its CIA director on a surprise visit to Havana in the same week. When it does all three simultaneously, while delivering a direct public address to the target nation’s population, the moves represent a coordinated strategic signal. […]
Inaction on the abortion drug crisis will not come without consequences for this year’s midterm elections. As post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization retaliation dressed as COVID-19 relief, the Biden Food and Drug Administration removed the very last of any common-sense safety regulations on the abortion drug, mifepristone, making the dangerous drug available on demand […]
Someone took my picture last week. “Smile,” she said. “I am smiling,” I said. “No,” she said, with a slight edge that I recognized immediately — the edge of someone who is trying to be patient with a difficult subject — “I mean, actually smile.” The problem, which I have never been able to solve, […]
Just before Christmas in 1961, a KGB major named Anatoliy Golitsyn defected to the West after turning up unannounced at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki. He came bearing secrets, revealing to his slightly bewildered hosts that Western intelligence agencies had been penetrated for decades by rather excellent Soviet spies. At the center of this effort […]
