Month: April 2022

In December 2018, I visited a large dyeing facility inside the Shaoxing Industrial Zone, south of the coastal city of Hangzhou, China. Twenty minutes out “How your favorite jeans might be fueling a human rights crisis”

By removing all troops from Afghanistan shortly before the 9/11 attacks’ 20th anniversary, President Joe Biden sent a none-too-subtle message: He wanted America, and the “The war on terror and the long death of liberal interventionism”

September 7 was Brazil’s Independence Day, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro used the occasion to continue his assault on the country’s democratic institutions. Bolsonaro had “Brazil escaped a January 6-style insurrection — for now”

The US is struggling with a resurgence of the coronavirus in the South and West. But the severity of Arizona’s Covid-19 outbreak is in a “Why Arizona is suffering the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the US”

A few months ago, California looked like a success story in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. As New York state’s coronavirus outbreak reached its “How California went from a coronavirus success story to a worrying new hot spot”

Many schools across the US gambled on offering in-person classes in early August, even as their states were still battling uncontrolled spread of Covid-19. In ““This is exactly what we’ve been warning about”: Why some school reopenings have backfired”

One month ago, I asked epidemiologist Tara Smith if she was worried about states loosening their stay-at-home orders, despite most not meeting the government’s criteria ““Totally predictable”: State reopenings have backfired”

Around the world, people’s mental health is in trouble. Even before the pandemic hit, rates of depression and anxiety were rising globally. Now that we “The case for funding psychedelics to treat mental health”

The US rollout of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine was halted Tuesday as regulators race to investigate rare blood-clotting complications linked to the shot. “Why Johnson & Johnson shots were paused — and why that’s so confusing”

Most people who get the coronavirus will fully recover and go right back to their lives. But the latest research suggests that at least 10 “Scientists haven’t figured out long Covid. Here are 5 of their best hypotheses.”