THE WOODLANDS, Tex. – Finally, they have the debate stage to themselves: The philosopher-politician vs. the businessman-preacher.  Newt Gingrich, the onetime House speaker whose appeal is his endless buffet of ideas, and Herman Cain, the former restaurant executive whose appeal is his folksy simplicity, first locked arms in the mid-1990s over their mutual abhorrence of health-care reform and adoration of welfare reform. If any two Republican presidential hopefuls may be brothers from different mothers, as Cain referred to his relationship with the wealthy Koch brothers, they are Gingrich and Cain. Read full article > >

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For Gingrich and Cain, it’s a friendship and a contest

Almost exactly 15 years ago, top officials of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met in Atlanta to strategize for what would have been one of the most remarkable public health victories in history: the eradication of measles, one of the most infectious microbes known to humankind. By the mid-1990s, widespread use of the measles vaccine had halted transmission of the virus among residents of the United States and Britain. A CDC report noted that the major obstacle to eradication was that public and political support would wane as fears of the disease receded. There was no mention of parental concern that the measles vaccine might actually be harmful. Read full article > >

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An early cure for parents’ vaccine panic

While this week’s indictment involving a grisly abortion mill in Philadelphia has shocked many , the grand jury’s nearly 300-page report also contains a surprising and little-noted revelation: In the mid-1990s, the administration of Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, a pro-choice Republican, ended regular inspections of abortion clinics—a policy that continued until just last year. read more

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Why a Gruesome Pennsylvania Abortion Clinic Had Not Been Inspected for 17 Years