As travelers wedge themselves into planes, trains and automobiles for holiday trips, there’s a good chance they’ll be joined by an unwanted passenger: a new flu strain th...
As New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration looms, the wealthiest Americans are being targeted as a rallying cry. In recent weeks, Mamdani’s criticism of millio...
Last week, the Senate voted NOT to extend ACA subsidies, turning their backs on the American people and igniting a health care crisis that is already exploding at the bed...
A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, or even the slowing of the progression of, dem...
Generosity is shocking. Especially when it’s to strangers.
That was my first thought upon hearing of the Dell family donation of $6.25 billion to fund Trump Accounts. I h...
ChatGPT and its peers have become the bane of teachers. Students churn out homework assignments with it and, according to one exasperated professor, secretly feed themsel...
In the realm of horror, it was hard to beat the headlines in February that you were carrying around the equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in your bra...
It’s hard enough for most of us to predict what we’re having for dinner tonight, much less how the world will look in 2100. By that time we might have cured cancer and st...
It has been a turbulent couple of weeks in national security, highlighted by continuing strikes on high-speed boats in the Caribbean that are, according to the Trump admi...