Month: April 2022

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

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”

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”

America’s evacuation of Afghanistan is over. But that doesn’t mean the US has fulfilled its obligation to vulnerable Afghans, some of whom are still trapped “The fight to resettle Afghans in the US has just begun”

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”

Covid-19 is upending our lives and forcing us to make complex decisions with little information and conflicting guidance from authorities. Summer, typically the season of “I’m an epidemiologist and a dad. Here’s why I think schools should reopen.”

Covid-19 testing in the US improved dramatically over the first half of 2020, but things now appear to be breaking down once more as coronavirus “Covid-19 testing in the US is abysmal. Again.”

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”

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.”