by Juliet Fang I first heard the term “hypothalamic amenorrhea” — a condition in which people stop menstruating from excessive exercise, stress, weight loss, or a combination of these factors […]
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Why ‘both-siderism’ fails the public
by Jackie Calmes American politics has changed dramatically since my post-Watergate generation of journalists began covering the story. Political journalism hasn’t kept up. For years it was easy to cover […]
Climate still warming, but leaders have a chance to fix it
by Doyle McManus This has been a year marked by terrifying news about climate change: extreme weather, massive wildfires, persistent drought in some areas and catastrophic flooding in others. The […]
Clean energy jobs on brownfield sites
by Mark Walter The Build Back Better budget reconciliation bill that Congress is now debating is the best opportunity in a generation to pass climate policy that will reverse the […]
Climbing from world’s worst to first
by Robert Pearl Another year, another condemnatory report for American medicine. In August, the Commonwealth Fund ranked U.S. health care dead last among 11 of the world’s wealthiest nations (for […]
The infamous Christopher Steele speaks
by Byron York The disgraced former British spy Christopher Steele has kept a low profile in recent years. Understandably so, given that investigations revealed his dossier — the collection of […]
Opposing perspectives on the Holocaust?
by LZ Granderson Can you think of an opposing view on the Holocaust that isn’t antisemitic? Evidently, a school administrator in Texas seems to think so. Gina Peddy, the executive director […]
What else is in the Build Back Better Act?
by Michael Hiltzik EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is continued from “People talk about the cost of that big federal bill …,” published yesterday, Oct. 18. Child care and families The […]
Healthy democracy can’t discriminate against independent candidates
by Jared Alper The eyes of the political world were locked in when the candidates for governor of Virginia stepped on the stage for a debate on Sept. 28. With […]
The fragile internet is a threat to the economy
by Tae Kim It has been a rough few months for the internet. In June, Fastly Inc.’s content delivery network failure forced some of the world’s biggest e-commerce and media […]
