When I was a little kid, I would often go to the grocery store with my mom to shop for that week’s groceries. I remember that the most important item for the shopping trip was the grocery list that she would carry with her in her hand once we got into the store. But, before we ever left ...
The joint American-Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime is now three weeks old, but there is another war -- a more silent one -- raging here on the home front. President Donald Trump's second administration is facing a highly coordinated shadow war -- one waged both by some influential outside voices on the Right and, more dangerously, by their subversive allies within Trump's very own government. If this campaign is not confronted and decisively defeated, the result will be calamitous: a second Trump term that drifts into lame-duck status not due to a voter backlash ...
Don't fall for the propaganda. Iran is not holding its own in this conflict. It is being systematically dismantled. One by one, the senior figures of the Islamic Republic have been eliminated: generals, security chiefs and regime power brokers. The country's leadership has been decapitated ...
I still remember one of my patients from early in my career as an obstetrician in northern Michigan. She lived nearly an hour from our clinic. One winter morning she arrived late to her prenatal appointment, apologizing as she walked through the door. The roads were icy, her car wasn’t reliable, and she had two young children at home while preparing for another baby. Medically, her pregnancy was uncomplicated. But the stress she carried was not. Like so many mothers I have cared for over the past 25 years, she wasn’t worried about the medical side of pregnancy — she was ...
When getting up from a squat feels like an extreme sport and you can throw your back out dancing in the shower, an honest question surfaces: how do we measure adventure versus risk? We can easily see adventure-seekers and extreme sports athletes whenever we open social media or turn on the ...
For Olha Burdeina's fellow Ukrainians, beginning their fifth year under Russian assault, "the silence is loud." Burdeina, a Ukrainian student at Brown University, writes that "(i)t is the moment between the siren and the explosion that makes you listen closely. I've learned to live in this ...
