I have a new nonfiction book coming out in January called The Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America. If you would like an email alert prior to publication, respon...

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Wow. Activists in wheelchairs were just arrested on Capitol Hill while protesting against Trump’s cuts to Medicaid. Their hands were zip tied. Another insane day in Trump’s America.

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Gov. DeSantis called a special session to support President Trump's immigrant deportation plan, but lawmakers ended it and called their own.

A recent pediatric research review has finally pinpointed a potential cause of SIDS—a tragedy for families—that's long gone unidentified.

As if the Pennsylvania senator backstabbing the progressive voters who elected him wasn’t bad enough, now he’s directly supporting the MAGA agenda.

Oh myyy 😂

Current Project The Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America, a historical non-fiction book for Globe Pequot Press about the Doctors' Riot of 1788, a deadly protest against anatomy students stealing bodies that changed the face of medicine and medical education. Due to publish Fall 2025. Now Available Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town, the complete, true story of the worst air pollution disaster in US history. Available at Amazon, B&N, or your local bookstore.

After 470 days of death, a tentative cease-fire began on Sunday in Gaza. But Palestinians could not be sure that the war had ended, and Israelis fear that many hostages will still remain in Gaza.

It took the assassination of President James Garfield in 1881 and the assassination plot on Grover Cleveland in 1894 for the Secret Service to beef up its presidential protection force. And it took…