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The year was 1919. President Woodrow Wilson a Democrat with another 16 months left in his second term collapsed in Colorado during a speaking tour. Upon returning to the White House he suffered a major stroke.At this point a cover-up began one historian wrote led by his doctor and his wife Edith. Edwin Weinstein a Wilson biographer reports that both confidantes fe

Helen UbiasI was boarding a plane from Los Angeles back home to Philadelphia when the news hit that former President Donald Trump had been injured during a rally in Butler Pennsylvania.The details were sketchy but the responses online and on the plane were already wild and entirely predictable.This is precisely the kind of thing thats juicy f

Abby Margolis NewmanSix decades after the age when most people do Ive become obsessed with Lego. My gateway drug was a set reminiscent of an ice cream truck. Like many parents I was trying something new as a way to connect with one of my kids. Unlike many parents in my case the kid in question was an adult and I was building a set that he had designed.My thre

Gaurav Singal &Anupam B JenaThe history of medical diagnosis is a march through painstaking observation. Ancient Egyptian physicians first diagnosed urinary tract infections by observing patterns in patients urine. To diagnose diseases of the heart and lungs medieval doctors added core elements of the physical examination: pulse palpation and percussion. The 20

Dr M Mustafa GksuOn the evening of July 15 2016 Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FET) led by Fethullah Glen who has been residing in the US for more than 20 years launched a bloody coup attempt against the people and the democratically elected Turkish government. Their aim was to replace the legitimate government with a radical fundamentalist regime loyal only

Robin AbcarianPresident Joe Bidens letter to his fellow Democrats in Congress on Monday was everything his debate performance should have been: a forceful articulate defense of what he has achieved in his nearly four years as president and a warning about the existential threat to our democracy posed by his rival former President Donald Trump.I am firmly com

Nadina RoncAs the sun sets over the Srebrenica Memorial Center a seemingly tranquil resting place conceals a horrific history. Here lie the remains of Bosnian Muslims brutally murdered in July 1995 by Serbian soldiers under the command of the now-convicted war criminal General Ratko Mladic.Standing amid a sea of graves I am enveloped in a profound sil

Shadi Bartsch-ZimmerThe melody of human progress up to the present has played on two grand instruments: science and the humanities. But for the last few hundred years these instruments have been treated as separate entities one concerned with the physical world and validated by objective empirical testing the other largely with subjective selfhood and human meaning.

Adam MinterThe presence of the 2 million or so fans who will travel from abroad to attend the Paris 2024 Olympic games will be felt in the citys stadiums. Unfortunately it will also be felt by the climate.According to Olympic organizers around a quarter of the carbon emissions associated with holding the worlds biggest sporting event will be generated by spe

In an election shock this week French voters delivered a parliamentary victory to the leftist New Popular Front which had allied with President Emmanuel Macrons centrist bloc in a successful bid to derail the expected victory of Marine Le Pens far right National Rally which ultimately came in third.France is not totally out of the hot water nor does it have a simple pa