The Effect Back-to-Back Storms Had on Lake Charles
It has been just over four years since Hurricane Laura slammed into southwest Louisiana just shy of Category 5 status — the fiercest storm...
How Opioids Corrupted Organized Medicine
Editor’s note: The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days.Many businesses will gleefully sell you a harmful addiction.The tobacco industry...
The Great White Hope
Like a lot of people, I breathed a sigh of relief when Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Heading...
The Tragedy of Chris Hayes
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack.
This recent episode of Chris Hayes’s podcast Why Is This Happening?, which I recommend in general, offers a...
No Place for Sissies
Old age, said Bette Davis, is no place for sissies. Neither, she might have added, is the Hudson Valley in winter. “I Like it...
Disinformation Dilemma: The U.S. Has Dirty Hands, Too
It’s no secret that the Biden administration has made fighting online disinformation a major priority. On Wednesday, it announced sweeping measures to secure the 2024 election from...