By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times The first U.S. case of the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus has been detected in California, officials said on Nov. 30. Genomic sequencing conducted at the University of California–San Francisco and reviewed by scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals 62 percent of voters are concerned about the Omicron variant.
Columnist at New Republic, Natalie Shure, gives her take on ‘Havana Syndrome.’
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to Dr. Oz announcing his run for Senate in Pennsylvania.
By David Faris The Week When news of the new coronavirus variant, now dubbed Omicron by the World Health Organization, intruded on Thanksgiving weekend like a most unwelcome guest, there were widespread calls to accelerate global vaccination efforts to reach poor and remote populations. And because the variant […]
By Ryan Cooper The Week Over Thanksgiving weekend, global markets were convulsed by news of a new coronavirus variant, dubbed “Omicron” by the World Health Organization after discovery by South African scientists. It raised the prospect of yet another major surge of cases and deaths all around the […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Professor and researcher Brad Wilcox to get answers about why conservatives on average are happier than their liberal counterparts
Krystal and Saagar respond to the statements made by Dr. Fauci in a primetime interview where he went after Republicans and declared himself a representative of science itself
Krystal and Saagar provide a detailed update of the booster shot program being pushed by the Biden administration and large pharmaceutical companies set to make enormous profits
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, Robby Soave, and deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, discuss Dr. Fauci’s transition from bureaucrat to partisan.
Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert, answers the hosts’ questions about the Omicron variant.
Krystal and Saagar deliver all of the facts on the new covid variant identified in South Africa called Omicron that has world leaders and scientists scrambling to respond accordingly
Krystal goes through the Gates money and pharmaceutical company profiteering that has created a situation where the coronavirus pandemic and all of its policies seem to go on forever
Krystal and Saagar are joined by public health policy expert and political pundit Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to better understand what public health measures will be needed to contain the Omicron variant
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the new variant of covid, Omicron, which has already spread in several countries.
Abby Epstein, director of “The Business of Birth Control,” details the new generation of women taking a more holistic approach to their reproductive agency.
By Joel Mathis The Week Perhaps this is what endemic COVID looks like: Occasional weeks or months of relative normalcy punctuated by sudden bursts of fear and panic, continuing on and on into the foreseeable future. Sounds exhausting, doesn’t it? I don’t want to be a doomsayer, but […]
By Paulina Firozi and Brittany Shammas Washington Post Lauren Kennedy Brady landed in Johannesburg on Friday to a flurry of text messages and news alerts. The Broadway veteran and North Carolina resident was headed home after 11 days touring Africa alongside her mother, daughter and niece — a […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Conservatives are accusing President Biden of hypocrisy after he announced travel restrictions against eight African countries. During the 2020 campaign, critics noted, Biden accused former President Donald Trump of racism and xenophobia for enacting similar travel bans. Despite the way it is being framed […]
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang PBS Detroit has joined the growing number of cities and states that have decriminalized entheogenic plants and fungi, more colloquially known as “magic mushrooms” and psychedelics. Voters, including the city’s incumbent mayor who won a re-election, passed Proposal E on Tuesday night to decriminalize […]
By Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish He’s written a history of the nuns and priests who defied the Catholic leadership to help gay victims of the AIDS crisis. Many of you will recall the horrendous way in which the Catholic Church hierarchy responded to the AIDS crisis. Many […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said the U.S. will speak with South African scientists on Friday to “get the facts” on an emergent COVID-19 variant that’s prompting a fresh wave of travel restrictions, CNBC reports. “This is really something that’s in […]
By Perry Stein, William Booth and Frances Stead Sellers Washington Post A new, possibly more infectious coronavirus variant, with an unusual number of mutations, had scientists sounding the alarm Friday and countries including the United States moving to impose travel restrictions as the world feared another setback on the […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals only one in five Americans hosting a Thanksgiving gathering will require proof of vaccination to attend. This survey was conducted online within the United States from Nov 18 – Nov 19 among 939 registered voters by HarrisX. The […]
Team Rising reacts to the Biden administration’s efforts to reinstate OSHA’s vaccine mandate.
BY Toby Green and Thomas Fazi Unherd Throughout the various phases of the global pandemic, people’s preferences in terms of epidemiological strategies have tended to overlap closely with their political orientation. Ever since Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro expressed doubts as to the wisdom of a lockdown strategy […]
By Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic After two years of pandemic waves, we’re finally learning whether the disease has a predictable schedule. The first part of what may be the first epidemiologic text ever written begins like so: “Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus: in the […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Yet another COVID-19 surge has arrived. Instead of a stretch of predicted decline, cases have risen about 30 percent this month, The New York Times‘ David Leonhardt reports. And while it’s essentially futile to try and predict what’s behind these frustrating numbers (a […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to a new report claiming that a seafood vendor at a market in Wuhan, China was the first known case of COVID-19.
By Tom Woods “The unvaccinated” have become public enemy number one in record time. They can be stigmatized, marginalized, and penalized at will. People have been led to believe that they are in danger from the wicked unvaccinated. Günter Kampf of the Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week A new report from New York’s State Assembly has found there is “overwhelming evidence” that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) engaged in sexual harassment. The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Monday released a 46-page report following an eight-month impeachment investigation into the former governor, […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Americans are fond of calling the United States the greatest country in the world. But that doesn’t mean the sentiment is universally shared. Critics point to various measures that raise doubts about the judgment: high rates of childhood poverty, sky-high levels of gun […]
Reporter at The Daily Poster, Julia Rock, discusses Big Pharma’s big ‘Build Back Better’ benefits and shocking new numbers on opioid deaths.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to The Food and Drug Administration authorizing booster doses of both Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines for all adults over the age of 18.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Emily Jashinsky react to a Saturday Night Live sketch mocking Joe Rogan.
Saagar issues his latest criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci over his plan to keep the coronavirus pandemic going forever instead of letting people live normal lives again
Krystal and Saagar respond to a heated interview on The View where a former co-host appeared on the show and began questioning prevailing covid narratives only to be censored by the show
Kim Iversen gives her take on OSHA’s suspension of their enforcement of President Biden’s vaccine mandate.
Krystal and Saagar break down the surge in opioid deaths in America since the coronavirus pandemic began to understand its causes and what it means for our society as a whole
Robby Soave breaks down why elites’ obsession with political correctness can actually end up hurting marginalized communities.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by author and writer Christ Arnade to talk about his experiences with the unvaccinated working class underbelly of America who go almost entirely unheard by elites.
By Peter Weber, The Week The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are expected to open COVID-19 booster shot eligibility this week to all adults who got their Pfizer and Moderna second doses at least six months earlier. (Everyone vaccinated with […]
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic A potential winter surge is up to vaccines, variants, and us. Winter has a way of bringing out the worst of the coronavirus. Last year, the season saw a record surge that left nearly 250,000 Americans dead and hospitals overwhelmed around the country. […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week The United States has reached a “tragic milestone,” as a “staggering” number of overdose deaths were reported in one 12-month period. Provisional data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed the number of overdose deaths in the United States […]
Robby Soave details the sordid history behind Washington, D.C.’s mask mandate.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Pfizer’s request for emergency use authorization of their antiviral COVID-19 treatment pill, paxlovid.
By Nick Gillespie, Reason Misinformation and bad policy can only be defeated by robust, open debate in the public square. All respiratory pandemics follow a script, one that’s as much social and political as it is medical or epidemiological, says Yale sociologist and medical doctor Nicholas Christakis, who […]
Kim Iversen breaks down what a Supreme Court consideration of vaccine mandates might look like.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss Joe Rogan’s reaction to the Aaron Rodgers vaccination controversy.
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