While the COVID-19 pandemic presents ongoing challenges marked by border closures, and health care systems worldwide strained to their limits, the safety practices inherent with nuclear technologies have ensured the safe and successful continuation of radiation applications globally.

The urge to escape covid-19 has given it a boost

“I hate him so much,” Cooper says of Trump, even though he’s “provided my greatest material.”

America, Australia, India and Japan are building a formidable diplomatic bloc

He calls on state legislatures to have the “courage” to overturn the presidential election in his favor as time is running out.

Some policies will improve with Biden in the White House, most notably trade, but also government spending (not because Biden is good, but rather because Republicans will go back to pretending to be fiscally conservative). But some policies will move in the wrong direction. Biden is awful on tax policy, for instance, though I expect […]

Without citing any proof, the RNC and Michigan Republican Party have called for a “full audit and investigation” into alleged voting “anomalies and irregularities.”

You could be forgiven for thinking the government has treated the pandemic as an opportunity to reward its friends Under the cover of an emergency, the government awarded £18bn in coronavirus-related contracts during the first six months of the pandemic, most with no competitive tendering processes. Meanwhile contracts totalling £1.5bn have gone to companies with […]

Previous editions of the case for capitalism (Part I, Part II, and Part III) have focused on big-picture analyses of markets vs statism. Today, let’s look at a specific product that free enterprise has delivered. Younger readers may take smartphones for granted, but I was born during the Eisenhower Administration and grew up with no […]

Unpicking the causes of gaps in health outcomes requires better data than most countries currently collect

Latest updates: Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter warns relaxing restrictions over Christmas could lead to a spike in cases and deaths NHS prepares dozens of Covid mass vaccination centres Unions call for frontline workers to be prioritised for vaccine Spending row as Sunak puts squeeze on public sector salaries Bullying inquiry ‘found evidence Priti Patel broke […]

Ivanka Trump on Thursday called New York state investigations into her father’s business dealings “harassment,” seeming to confirm that the probes now include tax write-offs that appear to involve her. “This is harassment pure and simple,” she wrote on Twitter, linking to a New York Times report of recent subpoenas on the Trump Organization. “This […]

If the president’s daughter-in-law does run, it will be a good test if any Trump other than Donald can win an election.

The price tag for the Georgia Senate runoffs has already cleared $100 million — and it’s climbing fast. Top super PACs and Senate committees from both parties have laid down tens of millions of dollars combined in initial advertising buys for the two runoff races, which will decide control of the Senate. It’s only a […]