Tom Bartlett

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Tom Bartlett

On Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with the families of two girls who had died from measles in West Texas—and raised doubts about the safety of vaccines. “He said, ‘You don’t know what’s in the vaccine anymore,’” Peter Hildebrand, whose 8-year-old daughter Daisy’s funeral had been held just hours earlier, told me.

4 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Tom Bartlett

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Tom Bartlett

Peter greeted me in the mostly empty gravel parking lot of a Mennonite church on the outskirts of Seminole, a small city in West Texas surrounded by cotton and peanut fields. The brick building was tucked in a cobbled-together neighborhood of scrapyards, metal barns, and modest homes with long dirt driveways. No sign out front advertised its name; no message board displayed a Bible verse. No cross, no steeple—nothing, in fact, that would let a passerby know they had stumbled on a place of worship.

2 months ago | texasmonthly.com | Tom Bartlett

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” The high school students begin the day by drawing one another’s blood, tying tourniquets and tapping veins before inserting needles. Afterward, they gather around a synthetic cadaver for an exploratory disemboweling. Airiana Guerrero, a senior, fishes out a faux kidney and gives it a little squeeze. “Feels like a chicken breast,” she says.

Dec 4, 2024 | lucianne.com | Tom Bartlett

Original ArticlePosted By: FlyRight, 12/5/2024 5:42:59 AMFor Eithan Haim, operating on patients provides a welcome break from the federal criminal indictment hanging over him. Haim, who is 34 years old, works as a general surgeon at a regional hospital in Texas, dealing with ruptured appendixes, gunshot wounds, and whatever else comes through the ER. "Whenever I go into an operating room, any stress is gone," he says. "It's a beautiful thing." Haim's alleged crime?