Author: Lance Garrison
Zoomer internet is, at least on the surface, quite different than ours. The celebrities are unrecognizable (Kai Cenat???); the slang is impenetrable (gyatt???); the formats are new (GRWM???). Austerely tasteful overhead shots of meticulously arranged food posted on Instagram have been replaced with garishly lit minute-long videos of elaborate restaurant meals posted on TikTok. Glibly chatty blog posts about the news have been replaced with videos of recording sessions for podcasts. No wonder millennials feel so alienated — the language and terrain of the internet are now entirely foreign.And yet zoomers — and the adolescents in Generation Alpha nipping at…
Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and that disqualifies him from appearing on the 2024 ballot in Colorado, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.In this audio conversation with the Opinion editor David Firestone, the editorial board writer Jesse Wegman says he believes that the United States Supreme Court will eventually take this case. But Wegman is less certain than he once was that “the court is just going to strike this down.”(A full transcript of this audio essay will be available midday on the Times website.)The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We’d like to…
“I feel loneliness in my chest.” “Just a heavy weight on your back.” “My career has isolated me.” “I don’t have a partner. I don’t have kids.” “Right after I got married, people just fell away.” “As a single parent, there are these —” “Then I retired.” “My greatest fear is dying alone.” “It’s a doozy, loneliness. It’s a bad one.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “The feelings of loneliness and isolation that I feel stem from losing my dad to suicide at 12 years old.” “I feel like I’ve always felt lonely. What did I do to run everybody else away? I…
Unlike at the Nuremberg trial, where the rules of international law were shaped by the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France, the Tokyo court also gave significant authority to anticolonial judges and prosecutors from developing countries. One of the most influential judges, Mei Ruao of China, disgusted at the British Empire, privately scorned “the nonsense of these imperialist white supremacists.” Although the United States wanted to skew the trial toward aggression against the United States at Pearl Harbor, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. potentate ruling Allied-occupied Japan, rapidly lost patience with the tribunal, allowing it to be steered…
As demand for these drugs continues to rise, I wondered how bioethicists think about prescribing drugs that patients may wind up being on for a lifetime when we have such paltry data about what that looks like — not just for Ozempic but for many drugs.Does getting informed consent include telling people they may have to take a particular drug forever? How is a risk-benefit analysis done when the use of a relatively new drug is expected to go on for many years? And how can hurried, overworked physicians manage to have proper conversations with patients about a drug’s unstudied…
Culturally, the age of inequality is still churning: Over just the last six months, we’ve had the song “Rich Men North of Richmond” and Shawn Fain’s leading the United Auto Workers into a triumphant labor war with Detroit’s Big Three while wearing an “Eat the Rich” T-shirt. But at the structural level, our picture of American inequality also seems to be changing. According to some measures, U.S. income inequality hasn’t meaningfully grown over the last decade, the very period in which it has become such a potent cultural and political meme. And in the last few weeks, several high-profile critiques…
Heart disease is the top cause of death for U.S. adults. And for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AIN) women, the risk is particularly high during pregnancy and spans generations. To help lower that risk, the American Heart Association (AHA) recently released its first set of scientific guidelines for cardiovascular health in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women of childbearing age. The guidelines address well-known risk factors: high blood pressure, LDL cholesterol levels, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and smoking. But they go beyond that to include trauma and mistrust passed down for centuries.Jason Deen, MD, is one of the experts who wrote the new guidelines.…
To the Editor: Re “Colorado Court Deems Trump Unfit for Ballot” (front page, Dec. 20):As a lawyer who participated in the effort to bar Marjorie Taylor Greene from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, I am gratified to see the Colorado Supreme Court applying that provision to Donald J. Trump.In 1868, the people, through their state legislatures, ratified Section 3 to prevent traitors to the Constitution from regaining political power in the wake of the Civil War. Extraordinary times called for extraordinary measures — and the same is true today.Jan. 6 was an extraordinary attack on American…
By Maya Guglin, MD, as told to Mary Jo DiLonardoYour heart’s job is to pump blood around your body to supply all your organs with the oxygen they need to work well. When your heart doesn’t pump as strong and as efficiently as it’s supposed to, you have heart failure.As your heart struggles to pump blood, fluid levels build up in your body. This excessive fluid causes almost all symptoms of heart failure.Typically, people with heart failure complain of shortness of breath and fatigue. They might also gain some weight.Shortness of BreathThere are two pumping chambers in the heart: the…
The first Trump term was both deeply alarming and a comedy of errors; a second Trump administration will be far more alarming, with many fewer errors.