Critics called Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya a dangerous “fringe” thinker, because he stood up to the health care establishment’s authoritarian arrogance.
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Debra J. Saunders

Debra J. Saunders, the Review-Journal's White House correspondent from 2017 to 2021, is the newspaper's Washington columnist. Her columns will appear two to three times weekly.
“Regrettable.” Ukraine and U.S. presidents spar again. Zelenskyy’s now ready to sign a minerals deal. Can this marriage be saved?
Uncle Sam has $36 trillion in debt. So yes, President Donald Trump needs to reduce the federal workforce. Business employees know the drill too well.
Jeff Bezos has two new causes for his D.C. newspaper’s opinion pages: personal freedom and free markets. And hold the endorsements.
Who’s the bully? President Donald Trump, Maine Gov. Janet Mills, or the boy in the girls locker room?
Team Trump puts the squeeze on the California High-Speed Rail boondoggle, which keeps spending big but shows no signs of ever being completed.
The number of border apprehensions was down in January — 29,116 illegal aliens were apprehended along the border, the lowest number since May 2020.
“Saturday Night Live” and “Face the Nation” show Big Media is out of touch and far outside the American mainstream.
The president, the richest man in the world and a House panel take on waste in humanitarian assistance. It’s a target-rich environment.
The Jewish state agrees to another asymmetrical hostage trade. Is it time to reconsider consequences?
The left-leaning legacy newsmagazine clearly felt it had to help Kamala Harris during the 2024 campaign — something it never would have done for Trump.
President Donald Trump out-talks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his call to transform Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Israel’s missile defense system has been a huge success. Could it work for the USA, which is more than 400 times larger than the Jewish state?
The nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services wants to disrupt America’s health care system and ask questions the establishment won’t.
With 27-year-old Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt running the room, everyone was on their best behavior. Especially with “new media” in prime seats.