What happened to the kingmakers of journalism? They seem to have died in 2011 with David Broder of The Washington Post. In an age when columnists could still influence the flow of events, Broder stood out as much for what he wasn’t as for what he was. He wasn’t, for example, a flashy ...
Things were supposed to be so different by now. Futurists predicted that by the 21st century, we’d travel in helicopter cars, vacation on Mars, and all would be wearing those nifty space jumpsuits. It didn’t turn out that way. One thing they especially got wrong was food. However, ...
On the second to last day of its term, the Supreme Court fulfilled its duty to uphold the guarantees of equal protection of the 14th Amendment when it threw out the race-based admission policies of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, finally ending the morally repugnant racial ...
When the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened on April 26, 1986, Maia Mendel was five months’ pregnant with her daughter Julia, who would become President Volodymyr Zelensky’s press secretary. Radiation had permeated the region, causing Maia to worry that she would give birth to a baby ...
The Food and Drug Administration recently sent a flurry of warning letters targeting small retailers with unapproved vape products on their shelves. But the retailers — many mom-and-pop shops and locally owned convenience stores — say the problem is the FDA’s foot-dragging approach to ...
It is argued that if the Titan submersible had been certified (read “peer-reviewed”), the deadly accident, which killed all five on board, wouldn’t have taken place. That may or not be true. Now there are calls for adventurism tourism to be regulated. I submit that if it is subject to ...