Volume 81, no. 1  January 2025 The Continuing Resolution that passed Congress did not include suspending the federal debt limit for two years, as President-elect Trump had requested, possibly hoping to place the responsibility on […]

 Volume 80, no. 12  December 2024 An electoral shift to the right, or “right-wing” influence in media, education, entertainment, business, law enforcement, the military, or medicine might be deplored as a return to the Dark […]

 Volume 80, no. 11  November 2024 Reactions to the 2024 election results show the deep polarization of our country. A “Dissident MD” called it “Liberation Day.”  He writes that the election “reveals that a majority—growing […]

 Volume 80, no. 10  October 2024 Physicians are held accountable for every code, every prescription, every referral, every entry in the electronic medical record—and increasingly for public or private statements challenging the approved narrative. Punishments […]

 Volume 80, no. 9  September 2024 In a startling development in electoral politics, prominent Democrats are endorsing Donald Trump: Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The key issue for them is the […]

Volume 80, no. 8  August 2024 The word “sovereign” does not appear in the U.S. Constitution,  but the U.S. was clearly founded to be independent and self-governing. Jeremy Rabkin writes: “‘Would we be far wrong,’ […]

 Volume 80, no. 7  July 2024 Lawfare is the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent. It is a type of warfare. According to the website lawfaremedia.org, “The name Lawfare refers both to the use of […]

 Volume 80, no. 6 June 2024 In the 1960 Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, “disparity” is defined as (1) inequality or difference, as in rank, amount, degree, excellence, etc.; (2) unlikeness; incongruity. […]

Volume 80, no. 5  May 2024 The 13th Amendment to the Constitution reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within […]

Volume 80, no. 4  The U.S. is said to be a “Vaccine Nation.” The central dogma of public health and most pediatric practices is that vaccination is the most important medical advance. It purportedly has […]