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Four years after what was once the “novel coronavirus” was declared a pandemic, COVID remains the most dangerous infectious respiratory illness regularly circulating in the U.S. But a…
Read more Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?“We are in this to win it,” No Labels’ chief strategist, Ryan Clancy, told me one morning earlier this month. Clancy and 16 other representatives of the beleaguered…
Read more A Wild and Dangerous 2024 ExperimentThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. N ikki Haley was standing a few feet in front of…
Read more What Is Nikki Haley Even Talking About?Relatively speaking, 2023 has been the least dramatic year of COVID living to date. It kicked off with the mildest pandemic winter on record, followed by more than…
Read more How Bad Are America’s COVID-Vaccination Rates?Japan is home to an untold number of conveniences and delights that American consumers regularly go without: Faster public transit! Better sunscreen! Lychee KitKats! But as we head…
Read more America May Be Missing Out on a Better COVID TreatmentThe FDA announced yesterday that it had for the first time approved a daily birth-control pill for over-the-counter sales. That’s a big change; once the product, called Opill,…
Read more Birth Control Isn’t the Only Thing That Just Went Over-the-CounterFor many judicial nominees, a Senate confirmation hearing is one of life’s most grueling experiences—an hours-long job interview led by lawmakers who are trying to get them to…
Read more ‘She’s Going to Be Famous for a Long Time’By all official counts—at least, the ones still being tallied—the global situation on COVID appears to have essentially flatlined. More than a year has passed since the world…
Read more Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last?Stephen B. Thomas, the director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland, considers himself an eternal optimist. When he reflects on the devastating pandemic…
Read more The COVID Emergency Is Ending. Is Vaccine Outreach Over Too?In China, a dam seems on the verge of breaking. Following a wave of protests, the government has begun to relax some of its most stringent zero-COVID protocols,…
Read more China’s COVID Wave Is ComingThe role of extremist white nationalists in the GOP may be approaching an inflection point. The backlash against former President Donald Trump’s meeting with Nick Fuentes, an avowed…
Read more The GOP Can’t Hide From ExtremismFor the first couple of years of the coronavirus pandemic, the crisis was marked by a succession of variants that pummeled us one at a time. The original…
Read more COVID Antibody Treatments Are in DeclineAnd just like that, with the passing of Labor Day, fall was upon us. Seemingly overnight, six-packs of pumpkin beer materialized on grocery shelves, hordes of city dwellers…
Read more America’s COVID Booster Rates Are a Bad Sign for WinterPreventing the next attempt to overturn an election is a bit like playing whack-a-mole. Plug one gap in the nation’s rickety, interlocking system for counting votes—say, by ensuring…
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