Governor Maura Healey is expected to sign H.5595, a bill that removes the 24-week gestational limit on abortion in Massachusetts, replacing it with a standard that defers entirely to the…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Sen. Bill Cassidy spent 30 years as a physician telling parents that vaccines save lives. Then he handed the keys of the nation's public health apparatus to a man who…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Nearly four years after Shanquella Robinson was found dead in a Cabo San Lucas villa, her mother is turning to a North Carolina judge to force one of her travel…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The strategic logic here is elegant in the way that only well-funded litigation can be. You file a defamation complaint demanding $10 billion in damages, a figure so audacious it…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Every safeguard was engaged. The father reported the threats. Mental health services intervened. CPS was notified. Medication was prescribed. And the system, operating exactly as designed, produced a clearance and…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Jackie, the bald eagle who put Big Bear Valley on the map, died Monday morning in an intensive care unit at the Ojai Raptor Center after three weeks of oxygen…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The Democratic Party has arrived at a genuinely remarkable moment in its institutional evolution: it has begun to treat its own ballot line as a liability to be managed rather…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The White House is serving up a staler helping of the legal arguments the Roberts court already refused to swallow.
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The executive order he signed directs federal health agencies to revamp the childhood vaccine schedule by spacing shots across separate medical visits and splitting the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
A British national from Essex, identified by the Department of Homeland Security as a member of a transnational criminal organization, was shot dead in Philadelphia after allegedly attempting to defraud…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
