The contraception mandate is not a form of insurance; it is a wealth transfer, plain and simple.

Medical science won't support smoking

Filling the gap when autocrats fall

Do needle-exchange programs ward off disease—or consign addicts to death on the installment plan?

The familiar photo of the Earth spinning in the blackness of space that was taken 50 years ago by William Anders, an astronaut on the Apollo 8 lunar mission, starkly illustrated our isolation on this planet. Now we face a crisis as the climate and environmental conditions that support life as we know it become ever more fragile owing to CO₂-induced global warming. The evidence suggests there is significant risk that areas of the Earth in tropical zones may become uninhabitable and that significant food chains will collapse in this century.