Coronavirus

Call it the first wave of the endemic, a bona-fide covid bump. The statistics may be hard to parse—the United States stopped systematically collecting data on coronavirus cases months ago—but, [...]

The covid-19 Public Health Emergency, which has been maintained for more than three years, across two Presidential Administrations, will lapse on May 11th, bringing a symbolic and a regulatory [...]

Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Energy—one of several government agencies that have looked into how sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19, first [...]

In “How to Lie with Statistics,” a best-selling book from 1954, the journalist (and tobacco apologist) Darrell Huff details common techniques for manipulating people’s understanding of reality, [...]

In March, 2020, Chelsea Kay, a twentysomething music lover who lives in New York, went to see the Australian band Rüfüs Du Sol play a packed show at the Orpheum Theatre in the heart of New [...]

Isaiah Berlin, the twentieth-century philosopher, spent much of his life arguing that we can’t have it all. Read the Full Article here.

During the first year of the covid-19 pandemic, the public-health expert Ashish Jha posted hundreds of detailed Twitter threads, fielded thousands of interview requests, and was mentioned sixty [...]

At the beginning of 2022, Hong Kong stood out as a pandemic success story—proof that the so-called Zero covid approach, whatever its costs, could squash the virus’s medical toll. Less than one [...]

In September, 1904, a twenty-year-old Grenadian man named Walter Clement Noel disembarked in New York after an eight-day voyage from Barbados. At the time, few Black people were permitted to [...]

There’s an urban legend about a Texas man who takes a rifle to the side of his barn and sprays bullets across the wall, more or less at random. Then he finds the densest clusters of holes and [...]