Health
Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?
[ad_1] Four years after what was once the “novel coronavirus” was declared a pandemic, COVID remains the most dangerous infectious respiratory illness regularly circulating…
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Politics
A Wild and Dangerous 2024 Experiment
[ad_1] “We are in this to win it,” No Labels’ chief strategist, Ryan Clancy, told me one morning earlier this month. Clancy and 16…
Politics
What Is Nikki Haley Even Talking About?
[ad_1] This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. N ikki Haley was standing a…
Health
How Bad Are America’s COVID-Vaccination Rates?
[ad_1] Relatively speaking, 2023 has been the least dramatic year of COVID living to date. It kicked off with the mildest pandemic winter on…
Health
America May Be Missing Out on a Better COVID Treatment
[ad_1] Japan is home to an untold number of conveniences and delights that American consumers regularly go without: Faster public transit! Better sunscreen! Lychee…
Health
Birth Control Isn’t the Only Thing That Just Went Over-the-Counter
[ad_1] The 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;…
Politics
‘She’s Going to Be Famous for a Long Time’
[ad_1] For 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…
Health
Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last?
[ad_1] 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…
Health
The COVID Emergency Is Ending. Is Vaccine Outreach Over Too?
[ad_1] Stephen B. Thomas, the director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland, considers himself an eternal optimist. When he…
Health
China’s COVID Wave Is Coming
[ad_1] In China, a dam seems on the verge of breaking. Following a wave of protests, the government has begun to relax some of…
Politics
The GOP Can’t Hide From Extremism
[ad_1] The role of extremist white nationalists in the GOP may be approaching an inflection point. The backlash against former President Donald Trump’s meeting…
Health
COVID Antibody Treatments Are in Decline
[ad_1] For the first couple of years of the coronavirus pandemic, the crisis was marked by a succession of variants that pummeled us one…
Health
America’s COVID Booster Rates Are a Bad Sign for Winter
[ad_1] And just like that, with the passing of Labor Day, fall was upon us. Seemingly overnight, six-packs of pumpkin beer materialized on grocery…
Politics
How Do You Actually Stop the Steal?
[ad_1] Preventing 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…