By now, you’ve probably seen First Lady Melania Trump’s extremely strange press conference this week—a rare and tightly controlled appearance in which she denied any connection to Jeffrey Epstein, declined to take questions, and offered little explanation for why the statement was happening at all. It landed with a kind of thud, not because it was dramatic, but because it felt oddly out of…

The Supreme Court’s ruling against Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors is being framed as a victory for free speech. It is not. It is a victory for a practice that has spent decades disguising coercion and psychological harm as treatment. It is also a decision about children.

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