Sara Ashley O’Brien

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Sara Ashley O’Brien |Eliza Collins

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s response to the outbreak has drawn criticism from both serious scientists and his most loyal supportersRobert F. Kennedy Jr. is confronting his first disease outbreak as Health and Human Services secretary. His response to the spread of measles in and beyond Texas has managed to alarm serious scientists while also drawing criticism from his Make America Healthy Again movement.

Dec 2, 2024 | wsj.com | Sara Ashley O’Brien

When Tess Smith was 18 and pregnant with her first child, she started weighing the pros and cons of pretty much everything: Should she use disposable diapers or cloth ones? Should she breast-feed or buy formula? Should she vaccinate her baby boy, or not? Should she use fluoride-free toothpaste? And what about seed oils?

Dec 2, 2024 | flipboard.com | Sara Ashley O’Brien

8 hours agoRobert F. Kennedy Jr.’s view on fats is about bucking convention, not promoting health. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest spin on MAGA, “Make frying oil tallow again,” is surprisingly straightforward for a man who has spent decades downplaying his most controversial opinions. Last month, Kennedy argued …

Nov 15, 2024 | wsj.com | Sara Ashley O’Brien

A few years ago, a singer-songwriter named Jaguar Wright went on the YouTube show called RealLyfe Street Starz to share music-industry “horror stories.” The channel’s co-founder, Jonathan Maduagwu, said that at the time, her words “seemed very sensationalized.”But after Sean “Diddy” Combs’s ex-partner Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed a bombshell civil lawsuit against the music mogul last November, he and his team saw an opportunity.

Nov 13, 2024 | jp.wsj.com | Joshua Chaffin |Sara Ashley O’Brien

One day in the midst of a vicious election campaign whose outcome, Donald Trump had warned, could threaten America’s very survival, the former president spent 90 minutes with a foul-mouthed 24-year-old who has achieved a certain kind of stardom by playing videogames for an online audience. In meeting Adin Ross in August for a livestreamed chat, Trump was entering the manosphere. It is an online universe of YouTubers, podcasters, live-streamers, online pranksters and more.