What could the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say to Americans who refuse to get a coronavirus vaccine administered by medical professionals but instead go to a livestock supply house for a drug designed to deworm horses and cows? Ivermectin in big animal doses can easily make a human sick and possibly dead.

Texas’ new anti-abortion law, which the Supreme Court refused to block on Wednesday night, bars termination of pregnancy after six weeks — long before a woman generally even knows she’s carrying — with no exception for incest or rape. But it imposes no criminal sanctions.

There is no sugar-coating our defeat in Afghanistan and the abject position we put ourselves in during the final days. The withdrawal is a blow to our counterterrorism capabilities, our prestige and our geopolitical position.

For all of that, though, no one in the world has the formidable advantages of the United States, which still outstrips everyone else, including China, on every material metric that matters.

Big news stories almost always contain at least one back story, a telling point that gets little notice at the time but in the long run may be as important as the main story. This back story is bureaucracy, and the main stories are the evacuation from Afghanistan, wildfires in west and renters facing eviction.

A study by Stanford University suggests that highly visible office workers are more likely to be promoted. Workers at a travel agency in Shanghai were divided into two groups — one assigned to work from home and the other told to come into the office. After nine months, the remote workers were promoted half as often as their in-office counterparts, even though they were 13% more productive in both hours worked and calls made.

The Biden administration wants credit for the Afghanistan evacuation as measured by the sheer number of people it flew out amid a security and humanitarian crisis of its own making.

This is the arsonist bragging about how many fires he has put out.

The radical right has explicitly shown us and told us what they plan to do. I propose we take them at their word — take the threat seriously.

And act accordingly.

As President Joe Biden’s propagandists wage a rearguard political war of lies and narrative distortion, al-Qaida has begun exploiting his administration’s on-the-ground Afghanistan disaster.

Granted, the world has changed significantly since FDR and JFK, and now a feckless president with low credibility makes a promise that will not be kept. How can it when there will be no Americans in Afghanistan to hunt anyone?

Whatever image a person conjures, it probably doesn’t match the one that a quick downward scroll of the page reveals. The photos of Lisa Alcindor show a young, striking Black woman whose long lashes reach toward the front of that helmet when she has it on.