When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration mandated the folic acid fortification of enriched cereal grains in 1998, it was celebrated as one of the greatest triumphs of preventive medicine. By introducing this critical B-vitamin into daily dietary staples, the nationwide incidence of devastating neural tube defects such as spina bifida plummeted by roughly 35%. […]
The late American artist Peter Max (Peter Max Finkelstein) was a true pop culture pioneer of the 1960s. He was born in Berlin to a Jewish family that fled Nazi Germany when he was an infant. He immigrated to New York as a teenager in 1953, became a naturalized U.S. citizen, and spent his entire […]
Every democracy has a name problem that it does not know it has. In nearly every country with an elected government, the party outside power is called the opposition. The word is so common that nobody questions it — yet look at what it actually implies. It defines a political party by what it is […]
For nearly 25 years, I’ve had one foot in medicine as a pathologist and the other in the political arena. Over that time, I’ve written commentary on everything from corporate insurance cartels taking over medicine to the federal bureaucracy blocking lifesaving cancer blood tests. Every single time I hit “send” on a new draft, a […]
Public cynicism regarding Washington isn’t just a mood; it has become the default setting for American citizenship. When a tiny fraction of the electorate expresses genuine faith in our federal representation, we aren’t dealing with a simple policy disagreement. We are witnessing a wholesale failure of trust. Whether you sit on the Right, the Left, […]
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam's four-part federal plan targets data center siting, energy costs and water use as Virginia communities push back against expansion.
CONCORD, New Hampshire— Pete Buttigieg is barnstorming the nation in the final weeks before the midterms, boosting candidates in battlegrounds and even areas traditionally...
The Issue: Tennessee’s two-time failed execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. Convicted murderer Christa Pike survived a botched execution (“Injected new life into killer,”...
