There has long been a belief that pregnant and lactating women are excluded from clinical research due to potential legal liability. However, until now, there has never been a systematic examination of legal liability in the US for the inclusion of pregnant and lactating women in clinical research and whether this fear of liability is supported by evidence.

When pregnant women get sick in the United States, they take medications that have been tested almost entirely on people who are not pregnant. Now, a federal report is pushing back on the long-held notion that pregnant people are “too vulnerable” to participate in clinical trials.

Fascination around the conjoined twins Brittany and Abigail Hensel’s romantic relationships is especially inappropriate, because it often stems from "prurient sexual interest," said Elizabeth Ellcessor.

Eric welcomes Will Selber, Military Affairs Fellow with the Bulwark and a 20 year veteran of U.S. military intelligence with multiple tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. They discuss the recent IS-KP attack on the Crocus City Theater in Moscow, the terrorist threat from both IS-KP and al Qaeda operating from Afghanistan, the difficulties of establishing an over-the-horizon counter-terrorist capability for CENTCOM, the Trump and Biden decisions to withdraw from Afghanistan, the failure to hold the Taliban to the terms of the Doha agreement, the repetition of US failures in VIetnam in training the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), a post-mortem on the shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, the reputational damage to the U.S. for abandoning its Afghan allies, the importance of military introspection and accountability for some of the failures in Afghanistan, and the ongoing impact of the Afghanistan debacle on military recruiting for the all volunteer force (AVF).

"But the TikTok bill retains a problematic focus on individuals—individual firms and certain kinds of people. That focus risks entrenching an overall U.S. policy that targets specific companies and people instead of systematically reviewing the safety of different categories of technology products."