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I AM ALARMED HAVING read your in-depth coverage on climate change in the July 20–27 issue. What a tragic time to have a U.S. President who devalues science and therefore has failed to lead the nation in both treating COVID-19 and accepting the realit

FIRST THEY WENT AFTER HUAWEI. THEN IT WAS gummy bears singing Adele. TikTok—the social-media platform where primarily Gen Z users share dance routines and zany memes involving crooning fruit candies and the like—has become the latest flash point in t

EUROPE’S LONGEST-SERVING LEADER, Alexander Lukashenko, is facing an unprecedented challenge as he runs for a sixth term as President of Belarus in elections on Aug. 9. A former teacher with no political experience, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has emerged

Authorities in Arkansas killed nearly 700 feral hogs during a 68-hour helicopter operation, according to a March press release. Wild swine cost the state millions of dollars in crop damage every year. Kentucky officials commissioned a bioacoustic “fi

Conservative original AT A 1996 POLITICAL EVENT AT SYLVIA’S SOUL-FOOD RESTAUrant in Harlem, a man in the crowd shouted out something that changed Herman Cain’s life: “Black Republicans? There’s no such thing.” The remark so angered Cain, then an inde

BRI AND LINDSEY LEAVERTON HAD THEIR DREAM WEDDING all planned out. In April, they were going to get married at a century-old mansion in downtown Austin, with their guests sipping cocktails on a veranda by the pool. Instead, they found themselves 20 m

ABOUT A DECADE AGO, KAMALA HARRIS CALLED up Elizabeth Warren to ask for a tip. It was the messy aftermath of the Great Recession, and Harris, then California’s attorney general, needed a recommendation for someone who could handle the complicated job

DOWNTOWN BEIRUT WAS A MESS of rubble, glass and twisted rebar after a colossal explosion tore through the Lebanese capital on Aug. 4. The apparent accident left at least 135 people dead, wounded some 5,000 others, and damaged so many buildings in the

STANDING ON THE DECK OF THE CAPTAIN CARL, his 34-ft. lobster boat, Jeff Woodman reflects on how the rocky shores of Spruce Head, Maine, have become an unlikely front line in two very different fights: President Donald Trump’s global tariff wars and A

Imagine spitting on a special strip of paper every morning and being told two minutes later whether you were positive for COVID-19. If everyone in the U.S. did this daily, we would dramatically drop our transmission rates and bring the pandemic under

OUR PRESIDENT WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE I AM A TERRORIST, a professional agitator stalking the Pacific Northwest. Four days before federal agents shoot me in Portland, Ore., I riffle through the garage, shooing spiders from my son’s snowboarding helmet. W

IN 1974, HUMORIST ERMA BOMBECK PUBLISHED A syndicated newspaper column that looms over the lives of American mothers whether they’ve read it or not. In “When God Created Mothers,” Bombeck describes God making a mother with the help of an angel. “She

JOYCE GREENBERG BROWN FIRST LEARNED ABOUT POLITICAL ORGANIZing from Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957, when he visited her youth group at a Philadelphia YWCA. She worked for George McGovern in Pennsylvania in 1972 and managed field offices in Florida fo

IN THE 2020 THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, NOBODY IS SICK AND POLITICS is the center of the universe. The Democratic Party has just nominated Joe Biden and his running mate at its mid-July convention in Milwaukee, while Republicans are gearing up to renominat

IN MINNEAPOLIS, THE FIRST DAYS AFTER GEORGE Floyd’s killing exist in memory as kind of a blur. Even so, the burning of the Third Precinct police station on May 28 was a signal event, and not only for residents of the south side, where Floyd was kille

LONG BEFORE GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH, EARLIE HUDNALL JR. was photographing the neighborhood where Floyd grew up. Houston’s Third Ward, like many Black enclaves, has suffered the long-term effects of systemic racism and inequity. But Hudnall, who has been

For 23 years, Larry Collins worked in a booth on the Carquinez Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area, collecting tolls. The fare changed over time, from a few bucks to $6, but the basics of the job stayed the same: Collins would make change, answer qu

THE WORLD IS CONFUSED AND FRIGHTened. COVID-19 infections are on the rise across the U.S. and around the world, even in countries that once thought they had contained the virus. The outlook for the next year is at best uncertain; countries are rushin

IN A SMALL ROOM WITHOUT WINDOWS, I AM INstructed to breathe in sync with a colorful bar on a screen in front of me. Six counts in. Six counts out. Electrodes tie me to a machine whirring on the table. My hands and feet are bare, wiped clean and place

Since the FDA added a black-box warning to Ambien and other sleep aids last year, signifying serious risks, insomniacs have begun looking for drug-free ways to sleep—and some musicians and scientists think music could be just as effective. Over the p

EACH OF US CARTS AROUND A 3-LB. UNIVERSE THAT orchestrates everything we do: directing our conscious actions of moving, thinking and sensing, while also managing body functions we take for granted, like breathing, keeping our hearts beating and diges

COVID-19 and its associated quarantine have disrupted pretty much every aspect of our lives. If you’re like plenty of people, that includes your sleep, with the pandemic bollixing up what might have been the most predictable and peaceful eight hours

FOR AS LONG AS SEEMAY CHOU CAN REMEMBER, she has gone to bed at midnight and woken around 4:30 a.m. Chou long assumed that meant she was a bad sleeper. Not that she felt bad. In fact, sleeping just four hours a night left her feeling full of energy a

IF YOU’VE WATCHED ANY AMOUNT OF REALITY TV, you’ve witnessed a scene like the one that closes the series premiere of TBS’s Lost Resort: a beautiful 20-something woman, surrounded by scenery straight out of the Garden of Eden, screams her heart out. H

EVEN AS OUR POLITICAL LANDSCAPE HAS BECOME OVERloaded with ridiculously wrongheaded pronouncements, comic absurdity in the movies—dumb, or even smart, stuff that just makes you laugh—feels more precious than ever. We’ve all become worried Victorian o

FOR A MOMENT BACK IN 2012, READERS AROUND the world might have thought that Jesus had had a wife. Karen King, an esteemed professor at Harvard University’s Divinity School, made headlines when she revealed what she named “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife,”

This pandemic seems a little different in that the U.S. doesn’t seem to be serving as a model for how to best respond. What has been responsible for that? If you score the U.S., our domestic response has been weak but can improve. Our R&D response—fu