Rita Levi-Montalcini, the trailblazing scientist who kept working to survive

Here’s how Kakenya’s Dream — and its graduates — are changing what’s possible for girls and women.

A pioneer of rational drug design whose discoveries continue to cure disease

My terrific former student/lab member and colleague Renata Shen did the primary writing on this installment of our "women in STEM" essay series, on physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. Wu's life prompts us to r...

In our new Substack series featuring women in STEM, we’ll tell one story at a time, about women whose discoveries changed medicine and science, and what it cost them to be heard. Each week, we’re goi...

"There is nothing more American than standing against kings...what will make the difference...is remembering that we are we the people. This is our moment. Let’s get out there and do it." HCR-10/14/25

Republicans are constantly trying to eviscerate Democrat-supported programs that benefited rural states like Medicaid spending, SNAP (the supplementary nutrition program formerly known as food stamps)...

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

Where will you be? Will you be wearing a costume somewhat prematurely re Halloween and the amazing Portland resistance? Find a protest near you-https://www.nokings.org/#map We inhabit the twilight ...

What the best evidence actually shows: Large, modern, better-controlled designs The 2024 Swedish population study (n≈2.5M) used sibling analyses to control for shared genetics and environment. Result...

For those who have asked me about recent assertions by RFK Jr. regarding Tylenol and autism, please see this article and the NYT deep dive penned by Sam Wang, who has also studied this topic in depth....

Anyone who watched the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner got a glimpse of how much Trump hates being mocked. President Obama and Seth Meyers spent nearly five minutes roasting Trump over his pro...

https://youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw Stephen and Jimmy go online to create their own show…and warn that our mainstream media and the current regime would like for them to ‘shut their traps’—amazing!

https://fb.watch/C8WkS8BNio/?fs=e Love both of these guys—sane, humane, thoughtful voices in a world that increasingly seems utterly unhinged. Thank you Stephen and Prof. Reich

Jackson, Mississippi residents spent weeks collecting rainwater in buckets during their third water system collapse since 2021.

by ©️Leslye Joy Allen One factor that no one is talking about is the USA’s #LiteracyCrisis! I taught college history for 7 years and belong to 5 generations of educators in my family. Yet, this cou…

Let’s begin with a principle that transcends partisan politics: democratic legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed, expressed through free and fair elections in which all citizens can part...

Your grandmother was wrong.

“Someone asked me if I had plans for the fall… It took me a few minutes to realize they were talking about autumn and not democracy.” Terrific reads for planning our resistance to our republic's fall.