Author: nick

[ad_1] Looking at British politics right now, this magazine’s American readership must be mightily puzzled. In Andy Burnham, the UK is about to get a new Prime Minister whose entire justification for leadership is that he hails from Manchester—the capital of “the North.” What, you may be asking, is “the North” (other than “that bit above the South”)? A central theme of this island’s politics is that there exists a yawning gap between England’s northern and southern halves. Northern England is poor, neglected, and failing, its plight symbolized by the post-industrial cities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, and Newcastle.  Southern England,…

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[ad_1] The President’s renewed strikes will not make Iran easier to coerce. They will make America weaker. The easiest mistake in war is to confuse the ability to strike again with proof that the previous strike worked. Donald Trump is making that mistake in Iran. The latest U.S. attacks may destroy more military assets and infrastructure, but they do not answer the political question that has haunted this war from the beginning: what outcome is all this destruction supposed to produce? The Trump administration launched the initial campaign claiming that it would curb Iran’s nuclear program and break the military…

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[ad_1] “Regime Change” co-author Maggie Haberman on MS NOW said she regrets how she and her co-author, Jonathan Swan, were unable to cover President Donald Trump’s health in their new book.”If there is an area of failure in the reporting for us, it was this, in trying, not mental per se, but just his health, how he is, why he has gone to Walter Reed several times, and they have released less and less information,” Haberman said on “The Weekend.”JONATHAN CAPEHART, MS NOW: I wonder through all your reporting and all the seriousness and everything and everything, I keep wondering…

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[ad_1] Researchers writing in JAMA Psychiatry argue that the FDA-approved label for Exxua, an antidepressant, highlights successful clinical trials while omitting numerous studies that failed to show the drug worked better than placebo. For parents, FDA approval can mean life and death for their children. When Charay Gadd-Spencer thinks of her daughter, she remembers a girl who loved to draw, played soccer year-round in Michigan and dreamed of becoming an Air Force pilot. London Izabella-Ryén Gadd also had a passion for travel and loved taking trips to Mexico with her family. But in July 2024, London told her mother she needed help…

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