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Trump’s new foreign aid ban expands his “cruel” agenda on the world

Reproductive rights groups are gearing up for the current Trump administration to implement extensions to the current global gag rule — but this time, it may go even further than the usual dominance over reproductive rights. Also known as the…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Kennedy’s attacks on HPV vaccines could cause cancer to rise

Cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, kills about 350,000 people annually — but for the last two decades, there’s been a robust, cheap and simple way of preventing much of it: the HPV vaccine. For nearly…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Early pregnancy care declines despite Trump’s pro-birth agenda

The current Trump administration has previously said it’s focused on promoting a “pro-family” agenda. Trump has said that he wants to be the “fertilization president.” Yet infant mortality remains high compared to other wealthy nations, despite more than 80 percent…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

RFK Jr.’s vaccine adviser under scrutiny ahead of key vaccine meeting

In just over a year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has dramatically reshaped vaccines at the federal level, which has drawn considerable controversy given his lack of a medical background and his long history of attacking…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Climate change is the latest weapon in warfare. Trump is indulging it

The day before President Donald Trump ordered bombs dropped on Iran, he visited a Whataburger in Corpus Christi, Texas, just one of several seemingly innocuous stops in the Lone Star State. He was mostly there to celebrate a dredging project…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Healthy Florida First’s toxic baby formula dilemma

In January, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that the state had tested 24 infant formula products available for sale locally. The results, he claimed, revealed elevated levels of heavy metals, such as mercury, in 16 of the products tested. DeSantis…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Maybe it’s time to give Elon Musk control of the sun

The world of finance is creaming its pants over the imminent public offering for SpaceX, Elon Musk‘s space-flight operation. It might be the largest such offering in history, according to Axios, which delivered the news under the headline “SpaceX’s monster…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

How to love the moon mission without guilt

Whenever someone likes to claim that the moon landing was faked — a fairly tedious conversation, even as conspiracy theories go — my general response is to ask, “OK, which one?” Most people seem to forget that there were six…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“People are choosing this fate”: Measles will get worse before it gets better

Measles has made a major comeback in the U.S. and the pace of infections does not seem to be slowing any time soon. Already, the country is on track to surpass last year’s number of measles infections. The Centers for…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Trump won’t touch the one thing that could fix fertility rates

Last March, at a Women’s History Month event, President Donald Trump highlighted his record on women’s health, including support for in vitro fertilization, saying he’ll one day be known as the “fertilization president.” A couple of weeks later, new federal…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0