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The infant formula crisis and our inequitable food system

No child should ever go hungry in the richest nation in the world. And yet in recent days panicked parents and caretakers who rely on infant formula for their loved ones’ health and nutritional needs are contending with the skyrocketing prices of baby formula and a severe shortage in grocery ...

Cronyism makes the baby formula shortage worse

Bad policy makes people vulnerable, and the current baby formula shortage is just the latest example. The immediate cause of the shortage was contamination in a Michigan factory, which might not resume production until June. But the underlying cause is a slew of bad policies that make the ...

To avoid the next infant formula crisis, make food safety a priority

The Food and Drug Administration has reached an agreement with Abbott Laboratories to resume production at the company’s Sturgis, Mich., facility. The announcement gives hope of relief for the three-fourths of American parents who rely on infant formula, and have struggled to find the product ...

Israel is not an apartheid state

The latest playbook of the rabid anti-Israel crowd is to smear the Jewish state with the slur: “apartheid.” This ugly lie has been uttered with increasing force recently and it underlies such abominations as the Amnesty International report; the recent commission of inquiry set up by the ...

Censorship isn’t the solution to social media’s ills

Technology is tampering with freedom of speech, and we don’t know what to do about it. At issue are the global platforms Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and the disturbing propaganda, disinformation and lies propagated on them. The inclination, on the left and the right, is to censor. It is ...