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“Some people get statues, others get holes.” – Salman Rushdie David Foster Wallace tells a story about an atheist and a believer sitting...

The child in the picture has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). She made the news in Mumbai when her parents tried to one of the new and...

COVID-19 has been a good testing ground for theories about the fair allocation of scarce resources. Everybody agrees on the basic idea...

Sedgewick County, home of Wichita, voted 58-42 to preserve abortion rights. That says it all. The organized anti-abortion movement...

While giving birth to her second child, Josephine, Dr. Jane Lee has a uterine rupture. It was misdiagnosed. Her baby went without oxygen...

Parents in the US make up their own minds about immunizations. Almost all consent to some vaccines for their kids. Over 99% of US...

Light smokers are 2-3 times more likely to get lung cancer, stomach cancer, and coronary artery disease than are people who don’t smoke....

Fifteen years ago, we reported that 16% of doctors in the United States would neither discuss abortion with patients nor refer their...

OK, so researchers have genetically modified pigs and then transplanted their hearts into brain dead human bodies. Yesterday’s dystopian...

From the botched police response to the Uvalde school shooting, we should learn two key lessons about proposals to make schools safer. ...

Annie Ernaux describes her abortion like this, “I could see the tiles between my thighs. I pushed with all my strength. It burst forth...

There are some serious theological questions here. What sort of God would desire prayers offered on the fifty yard line immediately...