Last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee, where lawmakers pressed him on his decision to remove COVID-19 vaccines from the children’s immunization schedule among many other things. The hearing underscored how deeply politicized public health guidance has become — and how urgently Washington needs to restore trust […]

I was a toddler on 9/11, too young to understand what really happened that day — a day that, though I did not know it at the time, unified a hurting nation. My parents told me stories of strangers helping strangers, American flags flying from every porch, and political differences set aside, just for a […]

Future generations will regard with shock and wonder decisions by Democratic states about questions raised by the interaction of transgender ideology, religious freedom, and the First Amendment. Massachusetts authorities are threatening to remove children from even stable foster parents who refuse to sign agreements to “promote,” “support,” and “affirm” a child’s gender identity or expression. […]

“I’ve grown deeply concerned,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), a physician, told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a blistering Senate hearing earlier this month. The Wyoming senator warned that “safe, proven vaccines like measles, like hepatitis B, and others, could be in jeopardy.” Less than 200 days after Kennedy promised the Senate he wouldn’t touch vaccine access, he’s […]

An infectious disease — one that rejects scientific expertise, metastasizes conspiracy theories and contaminates programs that track and treat illnesses — has entered the body politic of America’s public health agencies.