13+ hour, 10+ min ago   (384+ words) In October 2020, from inside the White House, I stopped attending the Coronavirus Task Force meetings. I wrote to the vice president’s office in frustration that I had no time to spend teaching people who were “refractory to facts.” I did…...

19+ hour, 41+ min ago   (505+ words) In less than a month, the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts will hear oral arguments in a case that could determine whether local licensing officials can continue to use (and abuse) their own discretion in deciding who is "suitable" to…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (579+ words) There’s an episode of 30 Rock from many years ago where Jack, played by Alec Baldwin, explains vertical integration to Liz, played by Tina Fey. He asks her to imagine if a corn chip manufacturer also sold diarrhea medication. When Liz…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (611+ words) We just had the first “mid-term convention.” Do you remember anything from it? Maybe President Trump’s promise to send every adult a $5,000 check if Republicans win, but that's about it. And we all know that is never going to happen,…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (42+ words) Everytown has launched an online gun-safety course aimed at hunters. But the study used to support the program—and the instructors teaching it—raise questions. The post Everytown Wants to Teach Hunters About Gun Safety appeared first on The Truth…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (684+ words) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quoted in 1983 the best explanation for evil developments that he had heard: “Men have forgotten God. That’s why all this has happened.” David Baerwald’s engaging historical novel, The Fire Agent (Spiegel & Grau, 2026), provides evidence of that: Baerwald shows…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (176+ words) More and more people have spotted them this season, but no one knows exactly why—or what to do. Read: The blockbuster that captured a growing American rift Read: Inside the dangerous, secretive world of extreme fishing When I asked…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (20+ words) In their version of Silicon Valley, technology has come to stab us in the shower while wearing its mother’s clothes....

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (861+ words) “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.” — Patrick Henry The man of “Give me liberty or give me death!” fame…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (206+ words) A Lindsay Clancy juror said the lone holdout 'realized that it wasn’t murder in the first degree' as jurors 'saw his doubt.'...