Ten years ago, I stood in the back of a large room at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, watching Donald Trump ramble. The celebrity billionaire had been…
Read more Why Attacks on Trump’s Mental Acuity Don’t LandNo medication in the history of modern weight loss has inspired as much awe as the latest class of obesity drugs. Wegovy and Zepbound are so effective that…
Read more Ozempic Can Turn Into No-zempicOn September 22, when federal prosecutors accused Senator Robert Menendez of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, Representative Andy Kim, a fellow New Jersey Democrat, asked…
Read more Political Accountability Isn’t Dead YetAfter she turned 42, Teesha Karr thought she was done having kids. Six, in her mind, was perfect. And besides, she was pretty sure she had started menopause.…
Read more Why So Many Accidental Pregnancies Happen in Your 40s“Anybody ever hear of Hannibal Lecter?” former President Donald Trump asked last night. “He was a nice fellow. But that’s what’s coming into our country right now.” The…
Read more ‘Nothing Is Going to Stop Donald Trump’The months of haze began in an instant, when the horse I was riding stumbled at the exact moment I was shifting my seat. I don’t remember falling,…
Read more America’s Concussion Problem Is Way Bigger Than SportsProductivity is a sore subject for a lot of people. Philosophically, the concept is a nightmare. Americans invest personal productivity with moral weight, as though human worth can…
Read more Do Not Underestimate the To-Do ListSince Omicron swept across the globe in 2021, the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 has moved at a slower and more predictable pace. New variants of interest have come and…
Read more How Bad Could BA.2.86 Get?Harvesting wild local produce in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park may not seem like the best idea. And yet, on a foraging tour of the lively public park last month,…
Read more The Missing Piece of the Foraging RenaissanceThe unpleasant reality facing the anti-abortion movement is that most Americans don’t actually want to ban abortion. This explains why the pro-life summer of triumph, after the U.S.…
Read more The New Pro-life Movement Has a Plan to End AbortionPress them hard enough, and most Republican officials—even the ones with MAGA hats in their closets and Mar-a-Lago selfies in their Twitter avatar—will privately admit that Donald Trump…
Read more Republicans’ 2024 Magical ThinkingA couple of weeks ago, a friend asked me how many COVID shots I’d gotten so far. And for a brief, wonderful moment, I forgot. “Three,” I told…
Read more Annual COVID Shots Mean We Can Stop CountingAnd just like that, with the passing of Labor Day, fall was upon us. Seemingly overnight, six-packs of pumpkin beer materialized on grocery shelves, hordes of city dwellers…
Read more America’s COVID Booster Rates Are a Bad Sign for WinterFor as long as my marriage lasts, my household will be divided by reactions to vaccines. I am, fortunately, speaking of physical reactions rather than ideological ones; my…
Read more Will the Bivalent Booster Cause Worse Side Effects?Starting in 2008, a widely circulated conspiracy theory was that Barack Obama was not actually born in America. Strivers on the political right scrounged around to try to…
Read more ‘Stop the Steal’ Is a Metaphor
