Month: April 2022
01.04.2022
You can buy stuff online, but getting it is another story
The global supply chain is in hot water. The pandemic has made it notoriously difficult for shoppers to…
01.04.2022
How your favorite jeans might be fueling a human rights crisis
In December 2018, I visited a large dyeing facility inside the Shaoxing Industrial Zone, south of the coastal…
01.04.2022
The war on terror and the long death of liberal interventionism
By removing all troops from Afghanistan shortly before the 9/11 attacks’ 20th anniversary, President Joe Biden sent a…
01.04.2022
Brazil escaped a January 6-style insurrection — for now
September 7 was Brazil’s Independence Day, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro used the occasion to continue his assault…
01.04.2022
I’m an epidemiologist and a dad. Here’s why I think schools should reopen.
Covid-19 is upending our lives and forcing us to make complex decisions with little information and conflicting guidance…
01.04.2022
Covid-19 testing in the US is abysmal. Again.
Covid-19 testing in the US improved dramatically over the first half of 2020, but things now appear to…
01.04.2022
What happens if Covid-19 symptoms don’t go away? Doctors are trying to figure it out.
Click:random password genrator In late March, when Covid-19 was first surging, Jake Suett, a doctor of anesthesiology and…
01.04.2022
“This is exactly what we’ve been warning about”: Why some school reopenings have backfired
Many schools across the US gambled on offering in-person classes in early August, even as their states were…
01.04.2022
The man without a name
Part of the Escape Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. Phil…
01.04.2022
The next pandemic could come from factory farms
In the past half-century, the global production of meat has undergone a seismic shift. While meat was once…