Trump and RFK Jr. just blew up the childhood vaccine schedule

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January 07, 2026

Trump and RFK Jr. just blew up the childhood vaccine schedule

By unilaterally gutting the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have replaced decades of successful evidence-based public health policy with ideology, conspiracy thinking, and medical malpractice. This is not reform. It is vandalism. Without meaningful consultation with pediatricians, public health officials, or the Advisory […]

A Warner Bros.-Netflix deal could test regulators’ focus

Before the new year, Netflix announced it would acquire significant portions of Warner Bros. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some policymakers and commentators have already rushed to claim such a transaction would be bad for consumers and lead to harmful industry concentration — or even market dominance by a single firm. They should take a step back before rushing to judgment. Such […]

The key to preserving marriage: Rejecting sameness

The following is an edited excerpt from Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can’t Be Fused with Christianity, set for publication on Jan. 20. The idea that marriage is simply a kind of equal partnership between a man and woman is a model that Western culture purchased a long time ago and at a high price. Poet and author […]

Are America and the West better off one year into President Trump’s second term? Unquestionably they are.

America has five adversaries of significance: The People’s Republic of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. In his first year, President Trump crushed Iran’s nuclear weapons program by ordering the U.S. military to execute Operation Midnight Hammer, which it did with extraordinary precision and success. At the same time, Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign and […]

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