America out loud

Christine Grady is out. Once heralded as the nation’s chief bioethicist at HHS, she was quietly given the option of retirement or reassignment — Alaska, they said. She chose retirement. It should’ve come much earlier. Grady’s legacy isn’t in what she prevented but in what she allowed. While married to Anthony Fauci, she stood silently...

Susan Patton doesn’t flinch. The so-called “Princeton Mom” came back to America Out Loud Pulse with a message sharpened by years of candor: appearance matters—more than we like to admit. She wasn’t talking about vanity. She was talking about survival in a world that judges, hires, promotes, and mates by sight. “Men need to hold onto their hair,” she said,...

Jacob James Rich has one specialty: proving others wrong. He doesn’t theorize, doesn’t gesture. He reruns the numbers. “I kind of call myself a replicator,” he says. “Most of what I do is grab data and try to verify whether they were done correctly. And about eighty percent of the time, the answer is no.”...

Father John Naugle sees parallels between COVID lockdowns and biblical warnings against fear and idolatry. At the height of the pandemic, Naugle noticed something deeply troubling: society elevated public health measures to near-religious status. “People created false idols out of masks, isolation, and vaccines,” he argued, highlighting how public health became infused with religious fervor. Naugle drew...

In 2016, hysteria spread across the world. A mosquito-borne virus, Zika, was said to be causing babies to be born with abnormally small heads — microcephaly. The media ran with the story. Governments mobilized. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international emergency PHEIC. Scientists issued dire warnings. Billions of dollars have been poured into...

Susan Patton doesn’t like taking medicine. She doesn’t trust it, doesn’t like the way it makes her feel. But this time, she was miserable—coughing, sneezing, watery eyes, congestion. She caved. She went to the pharmacy, bought some over-the-counter cold relief, and followed the instructions. The problem was that it took over an hour to work,...

What the flock is going on? Dr. Clayton Baker doesn’t mince words. He sees the bird flu panic for what it is: another exercise in control. “You don’t save Tokyo by creating Godzilla,” he says. The government pays farmers to kill their chickens and then warns of shortages. The numbers don’t add up. “If one bird tests positive,...

Cancer isn’t a single enemy but a battlefield of distinct cellular mutinies. While most tissues in the human body never grow malignant—muscle, fat, heart—others, like skin, colon, and breast tissue, face relentless assaults. Why? Cells that replicate frequently are more prone to cancer. Each division risks an error, a misstep in the DNA blueprint, much...