Jodi Jacobson Posts

More people were killed by Maria than by the terrorist attacks of 9/11. This time, we can't blame anyone but ourselves.

Republicans' tax bill would immediately endanger the health, well-being, and, literally, lives of millions. People will die.

The man who has been chosen to be the national security adviser to the president tweets dangerous, malicious, unproven conspiracy theories that have now led to a near disaster at a local family restaurant.

Reducing critical medical and public health debates to the level of opinion not only abrogates the public trust, it puts all of us in danger.

GOP leaders will attend a “summit on poverty” in South Carolina on Saturday. But no summit can fix what ails the GOP when it comes to concern for people struggling to make ends meet, or who no longer have any means whatsoever.

It’s pretty much a given these days that no matter how untrustworthy or mendacious a group, politician, or individual, no matter their actual agenda, no matter actual facts or lack thereof, they can easily garner media coverage that in turn requires taking their claims seriously and as though they deserve merit, even when they are lying through their teeth.

At a time when the nation is facing numerous crises, including crumbling and increasingly dangerous infrastructure, the GOP leadership in Congress is deregulating and defunding services and agencies that save people's lives, while obsessing about abortion bans. And for this they are called "pro-life."

At least one in three women in the United States will have at least one abortion in her lifetime. Six in ten American women who have an abortion already have a child, and more than three in ten already have two or more children. A columnist for the National Review believes they should all be hanged.

Several things worry me about this new policy. For one, it puts the NFL in the role of self-policing, an approach that has proven to be a huge failure with regard to sexual assault and rape at universities and one that makes me deeply uncomfortable, given the NFL’s institutional imperative for good publicity and self-preservation.

It’s a mystery why the Times asked Harrison to write a piece on emergency contraceptives, since it is composed of three outright false claims, all of which have been previously debunked by the New York Times itself.