Nearly 5,000 former players sued the National Football League in 2011 for covering up head injuries associated with the sport. The next year, the New Orleans Saints were busted for “Bountygate” — offering bonuses to their players for injuring opponents. Young standouts like Austin Collie, Johnny Knox, and Ryan Shazier were forced into premature retirement...
In the last days of his administration, former President Joe Biden unveiled a plan to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and urged President Donald Trump to take up the effort. This plan, while likely well-intended, misses the real tobacco problem in America. Occasionally smoking a cigarette with higher nicotine concentration is not bad...
Don’t let a meme be your measure of virtue. The tradwife meme dominated 2024: Nara Smith dazzled with cooking videos, Estee Williams preached to her followers about Biblical submission, and Hannah Neeleman of Ballerina Farms starred in a viral Times article. Although viral “trad wives” like Nara Smith have explicitly rejected the label, many conservatives...
For the first time since President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in 1985, America’s new commander-in-chief took the oath of office inside away from the crowds — and I went anyway. The quick 48-hour trip to Washington, D.C., began after I received tickets from my grandma’s congressional representative. Learning the inauguration had been moved inside felt like...
I could still recite the Apostles’ Creed on my second try, so I probably wasn’t drunk, strictly speaking. It’s me again, Joseph Oldsboy. A gang of my friends dragged me off to a Manning Street party last weekend, but it’s OK because I went to confession afterward. You see, I’d been raised different. In my...