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Full transcript: Dr. Deborah Birx on “Face the Nation,” Aug. 21, 2022

The following is the full transcript of an interview with Dr. Deborah Birx, former President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response coordinator, that aired Sunday, Aug. 21,…

Marc Short rejects calls to ‘defund the FBI’ following Mar-a-Lago raid

During an interview on “Mornings with Maria,” Thursday, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence provides analysis of the Department of Justice’s role in…

Former CDC director says it will take ‘years’ to shift away from academic culture that tarnished the agency

The CDC announced a restructuring in its agency amid ongoing criticism of COVID-19 response Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield…

Monkeypox: Birx Says We Are Not Ready for a New Pandemic

Ambassador Deborah Birx, MD, told Infection Control Today® exclusively, “Every mistake that we made with COVID-19 in January and February of 2020, repeated in real…

The story behind the stars

The recent images from NASA’s Webb telescope were stunning — but few people know what they are looking at. Dr. Moiya McTier, an astrophysicist who…

The infidels will not be silenced

Like Salman Rushdie, I choose freedom Thirty-three years ago, when I was a teenager in Nairobi, I was a book burner. The year was 1989,…

(Podcast) Cheney to deliver pointed address marking “the beginning of the battle” to confront Trump

Aides of Republican Rep. Liz Cheney say she intends to make the case that she is at “the beginning of the battle” against former President…

Birx: Every New Infection, Loss Should be Considered a Failure of US Medical Infrastructure

Ambassador Deborah Birx said in an exclusive interview with ICT® that there are “extraordinary structural barriers in the US to access” medical care. Individuals may…

Fantasy, Science, and Creativity: An Exclusive Guest Post from Moiya McTier, Author of The Milky Way

A bit Bill Bryson, a dash Mary Roach, the canvas of Neil deGrasse Tyson, and all the excitement of a Ms. Frizzle Magic School Bus…

Trump Is Back on the Ballot

That’s a problem for Republicans. Put two things together. The first is the surge of Republican support for Donald Trump since the FBI searched his…

(Podcast) You’re Never Too Old to Play

It’s easy to understand the importance of play during childhood but research shows that play is important at every age. In this episode, Dr. Sanjay…

There is no “Biden Doctrine”

A year after Kabul, his vision is blurred by chaos I keep thinking of the people falling from the sky. The images are seared into…