Alexis Parr

Twice a year, the federal government forcibly adjusts when you wake up, eat, and sleep. And half the country still thinks this is normal.

An Estée Lauder executive dead at 39 in her own home. The tragedy is real. So are the questions it should be prompting about how we treat high-achieving people's health.

The Guthrie sisters left a card at their mother's memorial. Two months in, and the institutions meant to help families in crisis have done almost nothing.

Every foreign policy establishment figure says Trump needs a clear Iran strategy. They're wrong. The ambiguity is the strategy.

The crew of the Regal Princess spotted people in distress and changed course immediately to save them. That instinct — unregulated, unscheduled, human — is exactly what bureaucracies train out of people.

They tried to mothball the B-1 for years. Then Operation Epic Fury happened, and three Lancers flew nonstop from the continental US to punch holes in Iran's missile caves.

Joe Fitzgibbon ran Washington state's budget process while impaired. The real scandal isn't the drinking — it's how quickly everyone moved to protect him.

My plumber makes more than my lawyer friend. He has zero debt, works six months a year, and his phone rings off the hook. Maybe the smart kids went to trade school.

I treat patients every morning and fight regulations every afternoon.