Abortion Is Literally on the Ballot in Kansas
OLATHE, Kansas—It’s 102 degrees, and the rally to save abortion rights has drawn a crowd of exactly one. Cassie Woolworth, the head of a local Democratic women’s club, has commandeered…
You still need to tell your friends if you get Covid
As the pandemic crests into the second half of its third year, highly transmissible, immunity-evading Covid-19 variants are fueling another spike in infections. While Covid-19 fatigue and official case data…
If the Inflation Reduction Act passes, the U.S. will finally get a federal green bank
If the legislation does manage to pass Democratic muster, the green bank is slated to be funded with $27 billion to provide financing so lower-income households can acquire efficient heat pumps, rooftop and community solar, and…
Maternal and infant mortality is highest in states that are banning abortion
Outcomes on which the 24 current or likely abortion ban states are worse than the 20 states unlikely to ban abortion: The infant mortality rate in states banning or expected…
Why Both Types of Conservative Fusionism Still Matter | National Review
Conservative fusion was always both an ideological synthesis and a political coalition.
Two vaccines are available to prevent monkeypox in the US. One of them is collecting dust. Why?
Monkeypox, a viral disease transmitted through close skin contact that causes flu-like illness and painful rashes, has already infected nearly 19,000 people worldwide, most of them gay and bisexual men.…
Settlement ends fingerprinting delays that kept migrant kids in U.S. custody for months at a time
“The settlement establishes a set of presumptive deadlines for the government to schedule fingerprinting appointments and complete fingerprint processing for parents and sponsors seeking to be reunited with children in…
Why All Christians Should Care about the Fate of the Latin Mass | National Review
The Catholic Church’s liturgy wars are about the most essential truths of the Gospel.
What think tank drama tells us about the US response to Russia’s war
Think tanks want to be quoted in every story. They never want to be the story. But given that Washington’s dozens of foreign policy think tanks influence what policymakers do…
News Roundup: Manchin might(?) agree to do a thing; Republicans take anger out on war vets
We’ll see. The Senate dance of determining what Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin will vote for took another turn yesterday with an announcement that he’d agreed to support … well, something.…