Ira Carnahan is a journalist who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2000, writing on a range of policy topics including environmental economics, pharmaceutical policy, and social issues such as adoptee rights advocacy. Her articles often combined economic analysis with cultural commentary.
FOR THE PAST COUPLE of months, Planned Parenthood has been beating the PR drums on behalf of a class-action suit it has filed against Bartell Drug, a Seattle-based chain that doesn't cover contraceptives in its health plan. The "historic lawsuit," as People magazine dubs it, argues that the policy…
When Jane Doe No. 1 decided to place her baby for adoption in 1961, she was promised her decision would be kept confidential. That's what the law said in Oregon, where her baby was born, and that's what her doctor, a nun, and the attorney handling the adoption assured her, too. Jane, 21 and…
IN Earth in the Balance, Al Gore warns that we are approaching "ecological catastrophe." In a report issued in June, the Clinton administration tells us what it will look like. Blistering heat. Rising seas. Endless rains. Drought. This catalog of horrors, outlined in a report called "Climate Change…
THE LATEST JOURNALIST to fall for the academic pseudo-science of election predicting is the Washington Post's Robert Kaiser. In a dramatic front-page article on May 26 headlined "To Researchers, Election Is All Over but the Voting," he writes: "You didn't realize that Gore has won the election? A…