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 LandThere’s something fundamentally excessive about winter sports. Instead of curling up with a book or Netflix when the weather turns cold, winter athletes wrestle with inordinate layers and…
Read more Risking Their Lives to Ski While They CanThese days, the options for dietary supplements are virtually limitless. And whatever substance you want to ingest, you can find it in gummy form. Omega-3? You bet. Vitamin…
Read more Maybe Vitamins Shouldn’t Taste Like CandyHouse Republicans didn’t exactly have a banner year in 2023. They made history for all the wrong reasons. Last January, they presided over the most protracted election for…
Read more The House Republicans Who Have Had EnoughLast fall, when RSV and flu came roaring back from a prolonged and erratic hiatus, and COVID was still killing thousands of Americans each week, many of the…
Read more Sick Season Will Be Worse From Now OnProductivity 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 ListIn the 1970s, they tried lithium. Then it was zinc and THC. Anti-anxiety drugs had their turn. So did Prozac and SSRIs and atypical antidepressants. Nothing worked. Patients…
Read more We Have No Drugs to Treat the Deadliest Eating DisorderOver the past eight months, I’ve spent a mind-boggling amount of time and money trying to keep an invisible poison at bay. It started at my daughter’s 12-month…
Read more Zero Lead Is an Impossible Ask for American ParentsOfficially, abortion had nothing to do with the constitutional amendment that Ohio voters rejected today. The word appeared nowhere on the ballot, and no abortion laws will change…
Read more The Abortion Backlash Reaches OhioFor the 150 or so people who filled a church hall in Toledo, Ohio, for a Thursday-night campaign rally last week, the chant of the evening featured a…
Read more The Next Big Abortion FightThe red-state drive to reverse the rights revolution of the past six decades continues to intensify, triggering confrontations involving every level of government. In rapid succession, Republican-controlled states…
Read more The Tennessee Expulsions Are Just the BeginningIf you haven’t been pregnant, you’d be forgiven for thinking the language of pregnancy is all baby bumps, bundles of joy, and comparisons to variously sized fruits. But…
Read more Please Don’t Call My Cervix IncompetentIt shouldn’t be hard to persuade people to take a sip of yerba mate. It’s completely natural. It makes you feel simultaneously energized and relaxed. You can drink…
Read more America Loves Coffee. Why Not Yerba Mate?Since the start of 2022, I’ve consumed more than my body weight in sweet potatoes. The average American eats closer to the equivalent of one (1) fry a…
Read more Thanksgiving’s Most Underrated FoodKristen McDonald Rivet let out a big, slightly rueful laugh. “I was underestimating the level of national attention this race was going to get,” she told me. “In…
Read more The Next Presidential Election Is Happening Right Now in the StatesA few months ago, I got food poisoning. The sequence of events that led to my downfall began with a carton of discounted grocery-store sushi purchased and consumed…
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