he man would sometimes wander into the sanctuary of Restoration Temple church in Brooklyn, New York, cursing and threatening to fight anyone who got too close. Rev. Cecil Moonsam would reach for his phone to call the police. He doesn't do that anymore. Moonsam was part of a massive effort that trained tens of thousands of ordinary New Yorkers to provide “mental health first aid” to people like that man at his church. It was one of the largest mental health initiatives in American history, and it gave RAND researchers an unprecedented look at how one city sought to change…

According to a classified report, which was given to the White House recently, several members and staff of Congress concluded that the COVID-19 outbreak most likely stemmed from a laboratory error. The origins of the pandemic were not known to the Energy Department. Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, provided this updated information in response to the classified 2021 report. The U.S. intelligence community has yet to reach a consensus on how the pandemic started. Although the FBI and Energy Department back the lab leak theory and four intelligence agencies support it, two agencies remain unconvinced. Wall Street Journal: New…

The emergence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics is often attributed to the overuse of antibiotics in people and livestock. But researchers have homed in on another potential driver of resistance: antidepressants. By studying bacteria grown in the laboratory, a team has now tracked how antidepressants can trigger drug resistance1. “Even after a few days exposure, bacteria develop drug resistance, not only against one but multiple antibiotics,” says senior author Jianhua Guo, who works at the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. This is both interesting and scary, he says.…

A lot of writers and media talking heads always enjoy being right. They rarely are. For twenty years now, however, The American Conservative has been right—right about American adventurism in the Middle East, right about the dangers of free trade and open borders, right about the hazards of monopoly power, right about the perils of putting Wall Street over Main Street. For the sake of this canary-in-the-coal-mine of a publication, better right than wrong—but that doesn’t mean we always enjoy it. It's become a running joke in the office among the staff, as I’m sure it has been from time to time…

Violence in the United States surpasses the unthinkable and increasingly resides in the space of apocalyptic rage, manufactured ignorance, and the normalization of a pervasive culture of ritualized barbarism. As civic culture collapses and truth succumbs to conspiracy theories, censorship, and the white washing of history, politics is emptied of democratic values, shared responsibilities, and a viable moral compass. Lawlessness is fueled by a diminishing lack of accountability in the political realm leading to an upsurge in racism, domestic terrorism, mass shootings and increasing threats of violence. Acts of violence erupt in even the most protected and secure spaces extending…