We think malaria is a problem faced only by humid, hot countries. But just over a century ago, the disease thrived as far north as Siberia and the Arctic Circle and was endemic in 36 U.S. states. Back then, malaria is estimated to have killed 80,000 people yearly in Europe and North ...
Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a Moscow court on April 17. Kara-Murza’s lengthy sentence, to be served in a strict Russian penal colony, was a shock but not a surprise. He has been jailed since April 2022, when he was arrested on lesser charges. He was charged ...
One day in June 1921, the editor of the Herald newspaper in Troy, Alabama, finally had enough. A clipping from the previous Sunday’s Brooklyn Daily Eagle lay on his desk. “An Assassin’s Monument,” the headline said. It had been reprinted in papers nationally. The editor angrily banged ...
As Ronald Reagan used to say, “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.” And that was long before the federal government spent $6.27 trillion last year, with a deficit of $1.38 trillion and an inflation rate of 6.04 percent — the consequence of too much money ...
Last year, President Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act (PSRA) into law and heralded a new era of fiscal accountability for America’s mail carrier. Clearly, the law has failed to get the U.S. Postal Service back on firmer footing. Despite forgiving nearly $60 billion in postal debt, ...
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced $420 million to reduce “tobacco use globally.” This new eye-watering amount should be good news. But because of Bloomberg’s self-interested understanding of nicotine use, it can only follow from his previous financial ...