#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines If we knew then what we’re learning now about its dangers to health, perhaps the 24 states which have legalized recreational marijuana would not have rushed to do so. What was historically sold to users as harmless and even healthful turns out to be…
The past three years have been painful for transgender-identified young people. Republicans have blanketed the nation with bans on gender-transition treatments for minors, often pairing them with restrictions on trans bathroom access and sports participation. The latter has become of national interest as athletes like Lia Thomas and Riley Gaines battle for each side…
One sentence is all it takes to understand writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ views on Israel. “On the last day of my trip to Palestine, I visited Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center,” Coates writes as the lead to the final section of his new book, “The Message.” Arriving on the…
This week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will generate a flood of news coverage likely consumed the way we do so many things today: through a screen. Technological marvels like the smartphone have given us access to vast amounts of information; but they have also made it…
In December of 2002, Sharyl Attkisson, an Emmy-winning investigative reporter for CBS News, had an unsettling interview with smallpox expert Jonathan Tucker. In a post-9/11 world, with fears of terrorists using a long-eradicated disease like smallpox as a bioweapon, the US was preparing to bring back the smallpox inoculation program. But to…
Thelma Ryan was only 13, a freshman at Excelsior Union High School in Artesia, Calif., when her mother Kate, a German immigrant and Christian Scientist from South Dakota, died from liver cancer at 45. Outside Rose Hills Memorial Park, in Whittier, where the funeral was held in January 1926, Thelma’s…
Donald Trump is now the only Republican three-time presidential nominee in history. That achievement was unthinkable in January 2020. Back then, his personal polls had hit rock bottom after the Jan. 6 Capitol demonstrations. Republicans had just lost two Senate seats to hard leftists in Georgia. With those defeats, an…
In ‘Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World’s Deadliest Crooks’ (Penguin Business), Geoff White asks: what would you do with sudden wealth if it came from a source you couldn’t admit to. “You’re faced with an excruciating dilemma,” he writes. “How do you…
In June of 2016, six months before election day, I wrote a column detailing how Donald Trump could defeat Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House. As I explained, a mix of racial anxiety, political alienation and over-reaching identity politics was propelling rural whites and working-class urbanites toward Trump…
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