The last two decades have taught us that a retaliatory invasion may assuage foreign policy hawks or hard-liners, but without a clear strategy and well-defined objectives...
The battle lines in the war on COVID-19 have been getting blurrier as infections surge and studies offer changing and sometimes conflicting data on exactly how much prot...
The latest COVID-19 surge is hitting hospitals hard, with filled ICUs and emergency rooms. I saw some of it up close two weeks ago: as a heart patient.
During a workout,...
Eight days before the 20th anniversary of the darkest day in New York City history, President Joe Biden honored a promise to the families of Sept. 11’s victims and initi...
Getting the COVID-19 vaccine is not a “personal choice.” It never was, really, but the onslaught of cases fueled by the delta variant has removed any doubt.
And yet that...
In a recent New York Times column under the headline “The Right-Wingers Who Admire the Taliban,” Michelle Goldberg describes a surprising amount of sympathy on the right...
We’ve all seen them — the “help-wanted” signs posted in business windows and even the “we’re sorry” notes, apologizing for long waits and reduced hours because of worker...
A reader wrote in with a blunt and honest comment that I want to share, because it alludes to a shift that’s taking place in society as we struggle to deal with this lat...
If you’ve ever been short on blood, you know what it is to feel rotten.
Too little blood coursing through your body can leave your head pounding and your lungs laboring....
Two of the most frequently used words in right-wing America, “freedom” and “Constitution,” are also among the most misused.
Many American conservatives believe the “Cons...
