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Ebola shows how Trump’s health policies are going global — and coming home

The ongoing Ebola crisis is escalating quickly, already ranked the third largest outbreak in history — and experts say erosions of U.S. health policy have fueled the crisis. When Health and Human Services pleaded for volunteers from the Centers for…

July 29, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Risk of nuclear catastrophe is worse than ever. We can change that

Half a lifetime ago, I had a crappy copyediting job that meant I had to drive for 90 minutes through traffic across the sprawling concrete wasteland of Phoenix. The job itself was boring and soulless, and after spending another 90…

July 29, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

AI doomerism is misplaced. Here’s what it will take to pop the bubble

Nostalgia is supposed to take at least a decade or more to kick in, but nowadays people are already pining for just a few years ago, before the president was drenching us in crappy AI memes and reply guys were…

July 29, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

The rising price of Trump’s anti-science agenda

There’s a well-known scene from a 2001 episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” in which a mob of fish mistakes a feeble old man for a bully and attacks him. The gag happens again, leading a blue fish to famously quip, “How…

July 29, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Immigration crackdown cripples America’s caregiving industry

Caregivers in the U.S. are paid just under $26,000 a year on average for the most important work there is. And this June, we learned the government drew up a plan to mark many of them dead. Let’s back up:…

July 29, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Democrats’ key to winning the midterms

American voters desperately want relief from rising prices — especially the increasingly unaffordable cost of healthcare. Democrats have a plan for that. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently introduced the Break Up Big Medicine Act with Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a…

July 29, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Breathable air is a luxury. Paying out of pocket could be next

Imagine this conversation with your spouse or roommate: “Dude, what is that smell? It stinks like burning diapers. Did you forget to pay the air?” Sounds like something from a knockoff episode of “Black Mirror,” right? Canned air was actually…

July 29, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Judi Dench: “I can’t recognize anybody anymore”

Dame Judi Dench offered a heartbreaking update on her rapidly deteriorating eyesight, telling audiences she can “no longer recognize anybody anymore” due to advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Dench, 90, appeared in conversation alongside longtime friend Ian McKellen when she…

November 29, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Gen X women don’t have the bandwidth to figure out why they feel so terrible

At the end of last year, I started to see a cognitive behavioral therapist. My executive function, the set of mental processes that help order the day-to-day — like organization, working memory, time management and focus — was in shambles.…

October 30, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

GOP health care cuts will hurt kids like mine

Last week was an eventful week for my family. The week began for us at a Moral Monday press conference on Sept. 29 outside of GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office in Louisville, Kentucky. We were there as mourners, accompanied by…

October 30, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0