Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the time she got to a hospital in Indianapolis, she was…

This holiday season brings an extra reason to be joyful: A recent poll found that Americans’ belief in the existence of a “War on Christmas” has fallen dramatically since 2022, to 23%. Peace on earth…

Looks as if we’ll be getting a two-for-one president with Elon Musk on board. It wasn’t until 14 hours after Musk’s first post on his social media platform X, “formerly known as Twitter,” that President-elect…

It is over. Dominique Pelicot has been found guilty of orchestrating and participating in the mass rape of his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, in their home in the quiet town of Mazan in the South of…

I left my job as a health insurance executive at Cigna after a crisis of conscience.  It began in 2005, during a meeting convened by the chief executive to brief department heads on the company’s…

When I recently picked up a rental car in Las Vegas — I was in America to cover the elections — the agent at the counter insisted on “upgrading” me to a BMW. “So you…

Kris Kobach is pretty happy with himself these days. He just got 147,000 people declared ineligible for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.  The victory is all the sweeter for Kobach because they’re all…

The aerospace industry was relieved last year when the Federal Aviation Administration, the main regulator for all things that fly, finally got an administrator after an 18-month vacancy. The choice, Michael Whitaker, was hailed as…

Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson recently affirmed that, with the Republican legislative majority even stronger after the 2024 elections, the leadership will bring back the push to ban transgender surgery on those under 18 years…

In his 2023 book, “Government Gangsters,” Kash Patel, whom Donald Trump says he intends to nominate as the next director of the F.B.I., named 60 people whom he classified as “members of the executive branch…