The Math Nerd Who Taught Poker to Think
David Sklansky died March 23, but the New York Times didn't notice for 19 days — a gap that tells you everything about how America processes its subcultural geniuses.
Life
Twenty-Three Right Whale Calves, the Best Season in 17 Years, and the Paradox of a Conservation Success Built on Rules Now Under Threat
NOAA confirms 23 right whale calves this season, the most since 2009, but the federal conservation rules responsible face budget cuts from the same administration.
Hospitals Triage MRI Scans by Diagnosis on Day Four of the Helium Shortage
Day four of the helium shortage finds hospitals in eight states triaging MRI scans by diagnosis — the blockade's cost has entered the examining room.
Justin Fairfax Bought the Gun With the Kids' Horseback-Riding Money
Court filings show Justin Fairfax bought the murder weapon with money set aside for his children's horseback lessons, two weeks before the divorce would have been final.
Eliot Engel, 79, Held a Bronx Seat for Thirty-Two Years and Lost It in One Sentence
The Foreign Affairs chair whose 2020 epitaph was a hot mic — a career ended by the exact indifference it had been built to conceal.
Eli Lilly Prices Oral Foundayo at $149 and the GLP-1 Price War Goes Hand-to-Hand
A month of weight-loss medication now costs less than a middle-shelf gym membership, and the policy that tried for this did not get there.
Your Social Security Raise Is $56 and Medicare Takes Most of It
A cost-of-living adjustment that moves checks by $56 and costs by $45 is not a raise — it is an accounting entry the war helped inflate.
Your Tax Refund Is Late Because the IRS Has 27 Percent Fewer People
The IRS is a smaller agency than it was a year ago, and the refund check is where the shrinkage becomes visible to the taxpayer.
Measles Count Reaches 1,714 as the 26-Year Elimination Claim Creeps Toward Its Line
1,714 cases, a November review, and a 12-month continuous-transmission clock counting down inside a CDC that keeps releasing data on Fridays.
FDA's GLP-1 Compounding Crackdown Leaves Telehealth Ads in Legal Limbo
The April 1 clarification narrowed compounding exemptions; the April 3 label change dropped the suicide-ideation warning — the regulator is doing two things at once.
The Number Twelve Migrates From a Pediatrics Paper Into Fourteen State Bills
Elevated risks of depression, obesity, and poor sleep for phone-owning 12-year-olds — CHOP's December cutoff is now legislation in fourteen states.
Home Depot's Five-Day Mandate Moves the 2026 RTO Tracker From Forecast to Record
Five days a week effective April 6, 800 corporate cuts on top, and remote work at 22.6 percent nationally — the rollback is no longer coming, it is here.
A Month After the Rialto Evacuation, 350 Orlando Residents Have Nowhere to Go
Evacuated March 19 for structural failure, denied FEMA aid for lack of a federal disaster, hit with hundreds of code violations — the Rialto is a template.
Olive Garden Adds an Ozempic Menu and Reverses Thirty Years of Super-Sizing
Smaller portions, protein forward, premium priced — the chain that built unlimited breadsticks now sells restraint to the 12 percent of adults on a GLP-1.