The newly appointed chair’s comments were overheard Friday during a break in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ...

A TLANTA—The new chair of a federal vaccine panel remade by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he felt as though he and his committee members were “puppets on a string as opposed to really ...

Before I accuse anyone of being on someone’s string, first let me say I am hanging on a string too. We all are. At the end of this article I will reveal the string I’m on. But let it be known, we all ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

In the movie spoof “This Is Spinal Tap,” the band members knew their days were numbered when they got second billing to a puppet show. “Oh no! ” wailed their manager. “If I told them once, I told them ...

We’re all familiar with puppets with strings attached to their arms and legs. When someone pulls the strings, the puppets move in different directions. The puppets do the bidding of the one pulling ...