Our major cities struggle with increased crime, sprawling homeless encampments, overcrowded jails, sky high taxes, and exploding budget deficits. Yet most government officials ignore the one factor that contributes significantly to each of these problems: the lack of acute psychiatric…
Recreational and medical marijuana are legal in 38 states. Several more states will likely vote on legalization in 2024. Political pressure to approve legalization is high, fueled by public polling and lobbying from cannabis growers, distributors, and users. Unfortunately, much…
Former President Donald Trump “has called for the return of ‘mental institutions’” to get the homeless off the streets, Axios reported Tuesday. Was he serious or just spitballing? The Trump campaign did not respond when I asked for further clarification….
It’s taken a long time, but states are finally taking action against major social media companies for the harm they’ve caused our kids. A total of 41 states are suing Meta because of the impact its social media platforms have…
The highly respected journal STAT has just published an article declaring that the dreaded “Long COVID is a new name for an old syndrome.” Preposterous! Incredible! Absurd! Ridiculous! Farcical! Toss in a few more synonyms! No, not at all. Just…
“More Mush From the President,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator, Aug. 24, 2023.
More than five decades of social psychological data have demonstrated that conservatives report greater levels of happiness and emotional health than liberals. All of this has been so well documented that, for the most part, modern social scientists have given…
While most progressives insist that the reason that more than 80 percent of self-identified transgender adults have contemplated taking their own lives and 42 percent of them have attempted suicide is due to the stigma and discrimination they have historically…
How could 6,000 shelter beds be unoccupied in Los Angeles County? It’s a number, reported in LAist in July, that makes no sense given the miles of homeless encampments that occupy area streets and sidewalks. Looking for an answer, I…
