In an election cycle that can only be described as stranger than fiction, things have just gotten impossibly weirder. Longtime Democrat-turned-independent candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the race and endorsed none other than Donald Trump. The move wasn’t totally unexpected; both campaigns have been hinting at it for days, and […]

The mood in humanities departments has become increasingly dire. While the crisis is real, I don’t think the fatalism is warranted.  

The people sharing the road with you are someone’s grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, sons and daughters.

It’s rare that a drug can have such a pronounced effect that its immediate benefits translate into health care savings for years, even decades. To the wonder drugs Harvoni and Sovaldi, which wipe out hepatitis C, we can now add the weight-loss medicine Ozempic and its cousins Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound. These drugs have shown […]

Fifty years ago, the state burst onto the national gaming scene. Its arrival was anything but quiet.