This winter was already shaping up to be one of the strangest cold and flu seasons in recent memory.  With Robert F. Kennedy at the helm of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the federal government has been casting doubt on the value of vaccines in the months leading up to virus season. […]

There is a specter of inevitability hanging over much of the Supreme Court’s current term. It is unlikely that any legal argument could persuade the Court’s Republican majority to uphold bans on anti-LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, for example, or to preserve the Voting Rights Act. These are issues where Republican judges have wildly divergent views from […]

The most embarrassing thing happened to me recently. It was twilight, and I was walking my dog around the quiet Brooklyn neighborhood where I’ve been living for about a year. Then I heard a sound that I couldn’t place at first. I stopped in my tracks and then realized: Crickets were chirping.  It was my […]

We’re used to seeing Serena Williams on our TVs, muscles flexing, smashing a tennis ball past her opponent. But in a recent 30-second commercial, Williams traded the racket for a GLP-1 drug injector pen.  Williams, whose most recent child was born in 2023, has become a spokeswoman in her post-retirement days for Ro, one of […]

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The former president of Honduras, who was serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking huge amounts of cocaine into the US, was freed from prison on […]