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I was on call during the Fourth of July holiday in Baltimore when I cared for a patient who died because the air around them was simply too hot.
The median house price in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is nearly $4 million. It was just $500,000 in 1995. This sounds like a stunning increase in one of the hottest and least accessible real estate markets in the country. What’s even more stunning is the stock market: If you invested $500,000 in the S&P 500 Index in 1995, you’d have more than $8.2 million today, even more if you reinvested the dividends you earned.
Anyone who has watched an episode of “Law & Order” knows that prosecutors often rely on forensic experts dressed in white lab coats. They tell juries about microscopic hair comparisons, bitemark analysis, bloodstain patterns and other science-y stuff that’s supposedly conclusive proof of guilt.
Markwayne Mullin's goal, he told senators in March at his confirmation hearing to replace the failed Kristi Noem as the Homeland Security secretary, was to keep the department and its blood-stained Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency off the nation's front pages. Now he's failed too. Front pages and screens in the last week have been full of the news that two more people, two fathers, ...
Prying policy specifics from a political candidate often is like tugging a bone from a bulldog. So, democracy sometimes resembles kakistocracy, an actual word that means government by the least qualified.
President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the White House on Thursday, at the 6 p.m. time slot typically reserved for matters of the greatest importance to the country. He had promised “really big news.”
I can’t imagine a world without books. But most Americans can, and effectively already do, live in that world.
President Donald Trump and other Republicans like to say the United States does not have money for programs that address the needs of ordinary citizens. “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump said recently, saying that the nation had more important things to do, like “fighting wars.” But in fact, the nation has plenty of ...
In a recent campaign ad against Kathy Hochul, the Democratic New York governor is shown welcoming undocumented immigrants into a luxury hotel, walking through a park filled with sleeping unhoused people and smiling with mega donors at a fancy dinner.
No one gets to choose the exact moment they breathe their last, but some die doing what they love, filled with purpose and zeal.
Here is what we’ve learned from two and a half years of Republican control of Congress and the White House:
Regular readers know that I have been debunking the myth of MAGA isolationism for a while, citing a series of polls from the Ronald Reagan Institute and others that have consistently shown MAGA Republicans are more hawkish and less isolationist than any other segment of the American electorate.
Americans’ expectations of political officials are already dangerously low, but they don’t expect politicians to be immune from illness or personal emergencies. They do, however, expect them to be transparent.
President Donald Trump recently signed a $70 billion immigration funding bill. While the massive increase in federal immigration spending sparked widespread debate, many agency budgets look surprisingly stable. One example? Department of Justice grants supporting crime reduction and victim services ‒ which I oversaw during the Biden administration ‒ fell by just 1% from 2025 levels.
A secret shopper survey conducted by researchers at Yale University and published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association offers an alarming, if unsurprising, glimpse into the world of telehealth purveyors of GLP-1 medicines. It confirms what doctors have worried about for years: The popular obesity drugs are being cavalierly prescribed. It should be yet another wake-up call for regulators.
Fox News has found a new way to scare the public. Too bad it seems to be backfiring.
The beeping of a heart monitor, the footsteps of nurses, the distant rumblings of an emergency resuscitation – the hospital can be a difficult place to get sleep. But for my patient admitted with pneumonia, the cacophony reminded him of bullets, and he woke up in a cold sweat. The patient had post-traumatic stress disorder from a mass shooting he witnessed years ago.
I never thought I’d be writing a column that led off with an analysis of soccer.
Last July, President Donald Trump signed into law the signature legislation of his second term – the One Big Beautiful Bill Act – a budget package loaded with lasting tax breaks for the wealthy and short-term benefits for working people.
Student loans are a special kind of debt. They are an investment to increase someone’s future earnings, though they must be paid back before most of those earnings are realized. Most of the loans are directly from the government, which not so long ago was telling borrowers they wouldn’t have to pay them back, and didn’t require them to. They are among the few kinds of debt that can’t be discharged in bankruptcy. They also have one of the highest rates of default.
