The Education of Sue Altman: A study in political transformation
There is a particular species of political creature that emerges every election cycle—the convert, the pragmatist, the one who tells you they’ve grown. Sue Altman presents herself as precisely such a figure, and her journey from the barricades of Trenton to the carefully manicured precincts of a competitive congressional campaign offers a case study in…
Yale team is hunting for biological markers that can reveal an autism diagnosis
For decades, autism diagnosis has relied on a deceptively simple premise: watch a child, ask a parent, and make a judgment. The same basic approach used in 1943, when Leo Kanner first described the children in his clinic, remains the standard today. James McPartland, PhD, wants to change that. In a fluorescent-lit laboratory at the…
Grocery bills about to explode: Food prices to soar 20% as global famine looms
The next time you push a cart through the fluorescent hum of the supermarket, past the pyramids of oranges and the shrink-wrapped meat, take a good, hard look. What you are seeing is an illusion of permanence. The global food system, that vast and seemingly indomitable machine that delivers dinner to eight billion people, is…
New Jersey’s bloodthirsty Democratic congressman defended President Donald Trump’s war with Iran
You can smell the smoke from the Capitol rotunda these days, or maybe it’s just the smell of a good argument being quietly strangled. Over in one corner stood President Donald Trump’s favorite Democratic congressman, New Jersey’s bloodthirsty multi-millionaire Josh Gottheimer. Over in the other, a writer from the Bulwark named Tim Miller, a man…
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