A growing measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas—24 cases so far in a county that voted 91 percent for Donald Trump—illustrates a grim irony.

Senate Republicans plan to vote today on anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be the secretary of health and human services. If they seat him, it will be Republican families that suffer.

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    9 days ago

    After the last election, I have zero faith in the American public’s ability to learn any lesson. We’ve got a whole propaganda ecosystem dedicated to keeping that from happening. The lessons will have to get more painful than covid was.