Paragraph 1 The Bhotekoshi floods struck with a fury that no one in the affected communities was truly prepared for, even if monsoon warnings had been in the air for days. In a matter of hours, the river, normally a lifeline for the villages and towns along its banks, turned into a violent, muddy torrent that swallowed homes, roads, bridges, and livelihoods. Families who had woken up to an ordinary morning found themselves scrambling to higher ground, clutching children and elderly relatives, unsure whether their neighbors had made it out. In the days that followed, the scale of the loss…

There is a deeply uncomfortable, almost tragicomic irony swirling around the latest public spat between Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor, Josh Shapiro. We are talking about a man—RFK Jr.—who has built an entire professional identity, a literal career, on casting doubt on the safety and efficacy of vaccines, now furiously accusing a governor of resorting to “fearmongering” and “misinformation” in order to score political points. The feud erupted over a press conference Shapiro held to address the tragic deaths of two individuals in his state who tested positive for measles. Kennedy, seemingly…