President Trump announced former deputy surgeon general Dr. Erica Schwartz as his nominee for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director.
In an era when content creators say increasingly outrageous things to stand out from the crowd and politicians must reach potential voters wherever they are, how far is too far? This past October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts ignited a wave of resignations at the storied conservative think tank after posting a video defending Tucker […]
“Exposure to infants in the social environment,” economists Sebastian Galiani and Raul Sosa write in a recent paper, “activates neurobiological mechanisms that increase the desire for parenthood.” That is, babies are contagious. We’ve long known that. As a culture of rational sophisticates, we try to laugh off “baby fever” as an old wives’ tale. As […]
The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity. The resolution demands “reparatory justice” for “Africans and people of African descent” due to its “scale, duration, systemic nature, and brutality.” Why focus just on the transatlantic […]
Many American progressives of different faiths, or no faith, celebrated the message delivered by Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter’s Basilica for the April 11 Prayer Vigil for Peace that, in other circumstances, they might have balked at. “Thoughts and prayers,” is shorthand for a kind of consolation after gun-related tragedies in the United States […]
In an era when content creators say increasingly outrageous things to stand out from the crowd and politicians must reach potential voters wherever they are, how far is too far? This past October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts ignited a wave of resignations at the storied conservative think tank after posting a video defending Tucker […]
“Exposure to infants in the social environment,” economists Sebastian Galiani and Raul Sosa write in a recent paper, “activates neurobiological mechanisms that increase the desire for parenthood.” That is, babies are contagious. We’ve long known that. As a culture of rational sophisticates, we try to laugh off “baby fever” as an old wives’ tale. As […]
The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity. The resolution demands “reparatory justice” for “Africans and people of African descent” due to its “scale, duration, systemic nature, and brutality.” Why focus just on the transatlantic […]
Many American progressives of different faiths, or no faith, celebrated the message delivered by Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter’s Basilica for the April 11 Prayer Vigil for Peace that, in other circumstances, they might have balked at. “Thoughts and prayers,” is shorthand for a kind of consolation after gun-related tragedies in the United States […]
The world is not short on bad news. Gas prices remain stubbornly elevated. Congress has lurched from one standoff to the next, the SAVE America Act is still grinding through the Senate, and a partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown is dragging into its fourth month. Overseas wars grind on. Americans looking for something to […]
When the Trump administration announced its Most Favored Nation policy, it was portrayed as a simple, sensible idea. Drug companies were supposed to lower prices for Americans to match the lower prices paid by other nations. But industry analysts and economists warn that the policy is making it harder for smaller firms to compete while […]
The war between the United States, Israel, and Iran has yielded a significant amount of uncertainty, but it may also have produced an unalloyed and unprecedented good: peace between Israel and Lebanon, its neighbor to the north. On Thursday, April 16, President Donald Trump announced that a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was to take effect […]
When it comes to foundational movie genres, we are told that the Western is dead and the romantic comedy is on life support, but the horror movie is alive, well, and, er, presumably bleeding. The modern entrants in this genre may not be good or even well-made, but enough of them still become hits to […]
Peacock’s new sci-fi series The Miniature Wife is an arch-feminist revision of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), with exactly that film’s gravitas and moral sophistication. But wait! Is it possible that this derivative goofball dramedy is actually fun? Through its charmless first episode, the answer is a hard “no.” The series stars Matthew Macfadyen […]
The next time you’re on an American freeway, take a serious look at the semitrucks all around you. Then do what’s necessary to get as far away from them as possible, because you’re at more risk from them now than ever before. From the 1970s through 2009, the number of serious truck-related accidents and fatalities […]
