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Daniel McCarthy

If there's one thing supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump's tariffs should agree on, it's the need to unchain prosperity at home while international trade is in flux. That means renewing the president's first-term tax cuts, for a start, but it also calls for sweeping regulatory ...

Nuts and the battle against chronic disease

You are what you eat…..or so goes the often cited platitude. But this isn’t just a meaningless cliché: every second of every day, the cells of your body are working to maintain their viability, to run the body, repair the damage of daily life. To perform these tasks, you need energy as ...

Denies, declines, and doesn’t listen

At my office, while seeing patients, I have noticed an interesting phenomenon. I define it as the “Men’s 3 D’s Problem.” The three D’s stand for every man’s three undeniable attributes: Denies, Declines, and Doesn’t Listen. To demonstrate, here is what happened during a recent ...

Georgia Garvey

Hi, my name is Jeffrey the Macaroni Penguin. I am the prime minister of the penguin contingent on Heard Island, which was recently informed by Donald Trump, the president of the United States, that we would be subject to a 10% tariff due to an alleged trade imbalance with his country. I'd ...

Dear Annie

Dear Annie: On a recent cross-country flight, I had an uncomfortable experience that left me wondering about basic airplane etiquette. I was seated in coach, where space is already tight, when the person in front of me reclined their seat all the way back — immediately after takeoff, without ...

From the Desk of Dr. J: Jessica A. Johnson

A heartrending tragedy has rocked the city of Frisco, Texas: A stabbing at a track meet on April 2 left a beloved and outstanding student-athlete dead. Austin Metcalf, a 17-year-old junior linebacker on the football team at Memorial High School, was stabbed in the heart. Karmelo Anthony, also ...