• Michelle Money holds bag of daughter Brielle’s brain fluid: ‘A lot of wins’

    Michelle Money holds bag of daughter Brielle’s brain fluid: ‘A lot of wins’

    Michelle Money has provided a graphic update on her daughter, Brielle, following her brain surgery. The former “Bachelor” contestant, 39, posted a photo of herself holding a bag of her 15-year-old’s “healthy” brain fluid as she remains in the ICU after a skateboarding accident. “Just holding my daughter’s brain fluid!” she wrote over the photo. …
  • Chinese Official Tries to Walk Back Claim U.S. Military Brought Virus to Wuhan

    Chinese Official Tries to Walk Back Claim U.S. Military Brought Virus to Wuhan

    A community worker measures the body temperature of a man as police officers inspect his documents at a checkpoint set up at an entrance to a street in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China February 20, 2020. China Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian held his first press conference in several weeks on Tuesday, attempting to walk back …
  • Trump Indicates He May Cut Funding for WHO

    Trump Indicates He May Cut Funding for WHO

    President Trump announced on Tuesday that the U.S. would temporarily freeze funding to the World Health Organization. “They seem to be very China-centric. And we have to look into that, so we’ll look into it; we pay for a majority of the money that they get,” Trump said at a White House press conference. “And …
  • Alanis Morissette practices ‘unschooling’ with her kids

    Alanis Morissette practices ‘unschooling’ with her kids

    Alanis Morissette opened up about how she educates her children using an unconventional process called “unschooling.” “Unschooling, for me, is child-led education,” she recently told Health.com. “So if there’s some agenda like, ‘Let’s play with these magnet tiles,’ and my daughter is like, ‘F–k those tiles. I want to put glitter on that thing and …
  • Michelle Money says daughter Brielle, 15, ‘doing well’ on life support

    Michelle Money says daughter Brielle, 15, ‘doing well’ on life support

    Former “Bachelor” star Michelle Money’s daughter is slowly improving following a tragic skateboarding accident. Brielle, 15, is on life support and recently underwent surgery to relieve some pressure in her brain, and is “doing well,” her mom wrote on Instagram in her latest update. “Brielle is doing well today! Her numbers have been averaging around …
  • Our Liberties Have Value Too

    Our Liberties Have Value Too

    When thinking through the wisdom of COVID-19 lockdowns and orders, commentators often compare the value of lives saved against some loss of economic output (GDP) to determine whether the measure was cost‐​effective. But this is an apples vs. oranges comparison. The value of a statistical life is some calculation of what the average U.S. citizen is …
  • Trump Claims ‘China-Centric’ WHO ‘Really Blew It’ When Faced With Coronavirus Threat

    Trump Claims ‘China-Centric’ WHO ‘Really Blew It’ When Faced With Coronavirus Threat

    President Trump hammered the World Health Organization on Tuesday over its response to the coronavirus pandemic, accusing it of being partial to China and endangering countries by recommending borders be kept open. “The W.H.O. really blew it,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We …
  • Why we love to hate celebrities

    Why we love to hate celebrities

    ‘One World: Together at Home’ is a weirdly complacent name. There is a classic Simpsons episode in which young Bart falls down a well. Local celebrities, with the aid of guest star Sting, decide to band together to do something about it. Their magnificently useless contribution is to band together to perform a song in …
  • White House Officials Viewed Peter Navarro’s Early Warnings about Coronavirus as ‘Alarmist’

    White House Officials Viewed Peter Navarro’s Early Warnings about Coronavirus as ‘Alarmist’

    Trump Administration trade adviser Peter Navarro sent a memo to the National Security Council on January 29 warning that the Wuhan coronavirus could kill over 500,000 Americans, but he was largely dismissed as “alarmist” and his policies were deemed “unsustainable” by White House officials, according to The New York Times. It is unclear if President …
  • ‘I Take My Personal Hygiene Very Seriously’: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Violates Her Own Quarantine Advice to Get a Haircut

    ‘I Take My Personal Hygiene Very Seriously’: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Violates Her Own Quarantine Advice to Get a Haircut

    Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing backlash after she violated her own quarantine advice over the weekend to go to a salon for a haircut. Lightfoot defended her decision by saying that she is the “public face of this city” “I’m on national media and I’m out in the public eye,” she responded to a …