Margaret Brady

  Attention! Two flashing, clanging alarm bells have just gone off, drawing the gaze of Americans to the futility and inhumanity of capital punishment. The first alert is the non-execution of 50-year-old Christa Pike by the state of Tennessee. Pike, who was convicted of the... Read More →

Dr. Leana Wen had just lost her baby. It was a hard blow during a difficult season of her life. As then-president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Dr. Wen was struggling with bureaucrats who didn’t share her vision for the organization. They’d criticized her,... Read More →

  On a cloudy June day in Philadelphia, Dr. Leonard Hayflick leaned over the table in his research lab, wielding a pair of scalpels. His task that morning in 1962 was to process the tissue of two human lungs. After cutting the organs into small pieces, Hayflick poured them... Read More →