Americans across the political spectrum are aligned on at least one belief, albeit for different reasons: The CDC is a mess. In a poll conducted this summer by The Washington…
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In 2022, Florida weathered a bad outbreak of meningococcal disease, a type of…
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Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out the CDC’s director and three other senior officials resigned…
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Pesticides once appeared to be a clear target for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s desire to “make America healthy again.” Before becoming the health secretary, he described Monsanto, the maker of…
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When Connecticut legalized recreational marijuana in 2021, the state’s lieutenant governor, Susan Bysiewicz, boasted that the new law was “crafted to repair the wounds left by the War on Drugs.”…
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At 38 weeks pregnant with her second child, Hannah Robb has no time to waste on red tape. Yet she’s lost hours in her struggle to figure out whether and…
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When she succeeded Anthony Fauci as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Jeanne Marrazzo felt that she’d landed “probably the most important infectious-disease job in…
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For parents, especially of young children, the question “What’s for dinner?” has high stakes. The answer can determine whether you’ll get to bed early or spend the night struggling to…
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Good politicians are rarely modest. The job requires an uncanny ability to sell each bit of incremental progress as a success in and of itself. That’s especially true for someone…
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. For nearly a decade, the immunologist and biochemist William Parker has tried, with…