The problem with pregnancy movies is that they never feel quite right. Waters break like fire hoses, and within seconds, a 6-month-old-looking baby is presented neatly and cleanly on the mother’s chest. If you’re childless, it’s unrelatable and boring. If you’re a mother, it’s unrelatable and irritating because it’s nothing like what actually happens. If […]

Caroline Crampton’s cultural history of hypochondria begins with her own hunt for a tumor. She stares at her reflection in a bathroom mirror at work, fingers kneading her neck, searching for suspicious lumps. Tumors, she knows from experience, have “a certain texture … a hard kernel moored deep inside with a slippery casing that can […]

The combination of highly visible protests combined with the varying university responses has lately reignited the debate over free speech on campus. Longstanding opponents of free speech have suddenly declared its importance, and have noticed how recent ideas about how to erode cultural and jurisprudential free speech norms might actually be used for ill — […]

Greetings, graduates! It’s a gorgeous day out here on the Quad, and I’d like to thank the deans and the president of the university for inviting me to speak to you today. Or, I would thank them had they invited me. To be honest, I’ve never been invited to give a commencement speech, another sign […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday announced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will "soon" address a joint session of Congress. “Tonight, I’m happy to announce something else to you: that we will soon be hosting Prime Minister Netanyahu at the Capitol for a joint session of Congress,” Johnson said Thursday during a speech marking...

The National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the country's five biggest conferences have approved a nearly $2.8 billion antitrust settlement, paving the way for a new revenue-sharing model poised to boost compensation to student athletes. NCAA President Charlie Baker, in a joint statement with the commissioners of Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12...

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Thursday pinned the blame of last week's raucous contempt hearing on a few "repeat offenders of breaking decorum" on Capitol Hill. "It's very unfortunate, it wasn't the first time, I hope it's the last time," Comer quipped in an interview on CNN. "The members that...

Worlds collided at the White House as everyone—from former President Clinton and Hillary Clinton to actor Sean Penn, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, and "Reading Rainbow's" LeVar Burton—arrived for the state dinner for Kenya. The Clintons smiled and held hands as they posed for photos at Thursday's black-tie soiree, the sixth state dinner of the Biden...

Arizona abortion providers will now be able to temporarily provide their services to patients from Arizona who travel to California, after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a new law on Thursday. The bill, titled Senate Bill 233, allows Arizona abortion providers to be quickly approved for work in California. It was introduced by Newsom last month...

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected Thursday a proposal by Alabama to take over coal ash regulation, citing insufficient protections in the state plan.