Biological Warfare

In February 2004, Kelly Warfield, a 28-year-old research scientist at the Fort Detrick Army base in Maryland, was investigating potential cures for Ebola. Working in a Biosafety Level 4 lab the highest level of secure containment she performed an elaborate s…

Key point: The country will likely not declare itself a nuclear power any time soon; ambiguity over ownership of nukes has served the country very well. In a private email leaked to the public in September of 2016, former secretary of state and retired U.S. …

Jeanne Guillemin, a medical anthropologist and biological warfare expert, died on Nov. 15, 2019, at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was 76. Guillemin received her bachelors degree in social psychology from Harvard University in 1968 and her doctora…

Kevin Lamarque/Reuters When it comes to cable news punditry, there are apparently no consequences for being spectacularly and horrifically wrong. Look no further than Judith Miller. As the United States and Iran seem to be on a collision course following Pr…

When it comes to cable news punditry, there are apparently no consequences for being spectacularly and horrifically wrong. Look no further than Judith Miller. As the United States and Iran seem to be on a collision course following President Donald Trumps de…

The Maleficent cast members, deserving of much better. Disney Enough is good about Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, out this week on 4K, Blu-ray and digital, that I really wish it were better. Alas, in the areas where it fails, it fails hard and predictably. P…

Key point: Deterrence has been key to the North's survival. Would the Trump administration actually consider invading North Korea? First of all, it goes without saying I hope this never happens. However, history tells us we must plan for the worst.  So wha…

NEW YORK—The man stumbled into the police precinct in Hell’s Kitchen late one night, staggering toward a tall reception desk painted black and blue. Before the desk officer could ask the man his business, he collapsed on a bench, dripping blood. When officer…

I think this whole anti-CAA/NCR protest-thingie is a Machiavellian diversion engineered by the tukde-tukde gang to distract us from the real revolution that is quietly, aromatically, unfolding right under our noses. In fact, despite our naive nostrils getting…

Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life. from The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon When you think about it, after 9/11, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush did Americans a fav…