The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to the prescription drug mifepristone in 2000. Last week, 23 years and five presidential administrators later, a federal judge in Texas placed a preliminary hold on the use of mifepristone, one drug in a two-drug combination used to ...
Last week, the lead-up to Donald Trump’s New York arraignment may have caused a record for breathless speculation.A squadron of reporters followed Trump’s motorcade out of Mar-a-Lago as it wound its way to Palm Beach International Airport.Reporters and anchors around the planet engaged in ...
Robert Kagan’s “lesson for all time” is that peace – as in the absence of war among nations – is most often squandered when threats to the peace “are not obvious and the need to do something is not obvious.”This, it seems obvious to say, makes keeping the peace extremely ...
More children were murdered in their school last week.Covenant School, Nashville, Tennessee – 6 dead, 1 injured.That was followed by the usual flood of tearful “thoughts and prayers;” feverish speculation about who the culprit might be; more tragic pictures of schoolchildren getting ...
Ed Yankovich has trouble remembering the last big Mitchell Day celebration. Was it five years ago, 10 years ago? Yankovich, former president of the United Mine Workers district headquartered in Uniontown, was unable to pin it down.“It was somewhere in that period of time,” he said the other ...
Back when I worked in television in the early 1980s, I reviewed hundreds of movies each year.I had one fellow walk up to me and say, “I disagree with your review of ...” whatever the movie was.I asked him if he liked that movie. He told me he hadn’t even seen it. He just wanted to let me ...
