Holly Baxter

N o one could have predicted it: a scandal over one academic's career at Cambridge University, suddenly propelled into the heart of a transatlantic

Some people came to it by choice; others tried and failed to have another. Holly Baxter speaks to ‘one-and-done’ families — and dives into the (resoundingly positive) research about only children, despite all the stereotypes

I always thought I'd have two. They'd be close in age, a boy and a girl, and they'd play together on family vacations.

Holly Baxter It's been a long 42 days since the White House held its last press briefing and over six months since it started its “very fast,” “two- to three-week” war with Iran.

In a surprisingly long briefing, the vice president managed to claim that there is no war in Iran, that sauerkraut from RFK Jr made him rapidly lose weight, and that Americans should build nuclear reactors in their backyards next to data centers. Holly Baxter writes about a briefing that slowly but surely turned strange

Bookmark popover Removed from bookmarks T he Lindsay Clancy case was already a national obsession before her trial began.

Holly Baxter We already knew, before President Trump began his Tuesday morning speech commemorating 9/11, that he wasn't going to visit New York.

The president showed a stunning lack of empathy during a speech in front of first responders and families who lost loved ones on September 11th, 2001, writes Holly Baxter

Sara Nelson was a flight attendant. Akhmed Ismailov left the USSR for New York. Stefan Schweinfest escaped postwar Germany and landed a prestigious role at the UN headquarters. Meaghan Higgins was a New Jersey pre-teen whose father worked in Manhattan. Holly Baxter tells the stories of four people whose lives were changed in unexpected ways on Sept. 11, 2001

None of this is going to be especially reassuring in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, even if we do 'beat China', writes