In the first weeks of the war between Israel and Hamas, Nancy Andrews read about American college presidents under fire and something nagged at her. Why, she wondered, did it seem like so many of those presidents were women? Dr. Andrews, who was the first female dean of Duke Medical School and until last year…
Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa broke with tradition and with former President Donald J. Trump in November when she endorsed Ron DeSantis for president in her state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, a move that surprised political observers and Iowa voters alike. And it has scarcely seemed to moved the needle: Mr. Trump remains the runaway favorite of…
Susan Tilton’s husband, Mike, was actually in good health. But after a friend’s husband developed terminal cancer, she began to worry that Mike would soon die, too. At night, “I’d lie down and start thinking about it,” recalled Ms. Tilton, 72, who lives in Clayton, Mo. “What would I do? What would I do?” The…