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Cigarettes still kill nearly half a million people in the US each year — 15 times the death toll from the opioid crisis. That’s also more than alcohol, car accidents, AIDS, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined. Thanks to tobacco…
The ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, is a reminder that lead exposure remains a toxic, irreversible threat to children’s brains, even in otherwise wealthy countries. After the city switched to a new water supply to cut costs, thousands of…
It was around five in the morning, a few days after Christmas. I was sitting on the nubby couch of a rented Florida vacation home while my children—who had not slept past four-forty-five for days—watched whatever trash was on the…
The best new movie this weekend isn’t playing this weekend and isn’t really new—it’s the restoration of Jan Oxenberg’s 1992 documentary “Thank You and Good Night,” at Museum of the Moving Image next Tuesday, with the filmmaker herself on hand…
Last week marked the fiftieth anniversary of the East L.A. “blowouts,” in which thousands of Mexican-American high-school students protested their crowded, understaffed classrooms and outdated textbooks with an organized walkout. At the time, George Rodriguez was a thirty-one-year-old photographer working…
If appointing CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow to run the National Economic Council is President Donald Trump’s answer, what was his question? It can’t have been that Trump was looking for an economic adviser with a less “globalist” mindset than Gary…
