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A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Now What?
The president’s COVID-19 diagnosis raises a number of questions about when the president was infected and how many other people in the White House might be sick.
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Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg/Getty Trump’s Climate Self-Own
At last night’s debate, the president got confused about his own policy—and Joe Biden’s.
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Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP / Getty Wisconsin Is on the Brink of a Major Outbreak
The state’s coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are at an all-time high.
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David McNew / Getty The Most Important Number for the West’s Hideous Fire Season
A little-noticed indicator was flashing red before any of the blazes began.
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Yulia Reznikov / Getty / COVID Tracking Project ... The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning
Millions of coronavirus tests may be happening without their results being made public.
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William Widmer / The New York Times / ... America Is Being Pummeled by Disasters
Hurricane Laura, the strongest storm on record to strike Louisiana, is yet another calamity on top of wildfires, wind storms, and the pandemic.
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Democrats Are Trying to Save Climate Policy From the Senate
The party’s senators have a new plan to face down the world’s greatest obstacle to dealing with climate change.
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Adam Maida The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.
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David McNew / Getty A New Solution to Climate Science’s Biggest Mystery
For the first time in 41 years, researchers have provided a new answer to one of the thorniest—and most fundamental—questions in Earth science.
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The Atlantic The Week America Lost Control of the Pandemic
Sixteen states have reported record caseloads since Sunday.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Dire Warning From COVID-19 Test Providers
U.S. coronavirus testing could fail again, as surging demand creates new backlogs and delays.
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The Atlantic A Devastating New Stage of the Pandemic
The U.S. has seen more cases in the past week than in any week since the pandemic began.
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Mel D. Cole / Getty / The Atlantic America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic
Businesses are reopening. Protests are erupting nationwide. But the virus isn’t done with us.
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Tasos Katopodis / Getty / The Atlantic The Protests Will Spread the Coronavirus
The country should expect a spike in less than two weeks, public-health experts say.
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Getty / The Atlantic ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’
The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.
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The Atlantic State and Federal Data on COVID-19 Testing Don’t Match Up
The CDC has quietly started releasing nationwide numbers. But they contradict what states themselves are reporting.
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Getty / The Atlantic How Virginia Juked Its COVID-19 Data
The state is combining results from viral and antibody tests in the same statistic. This threatens to confound America’s understanding of the pandemic.
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The Atlantic There’s One Big Reason the U.S. Economy Can’t Reopen
The country faces the same problem today that it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus.
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Adam Maida A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat
Few figures tell you anything useful about how the coronavirus has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.
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Diy 13 / shutterstock / Paul Spella / ... Trump’s New Auto Rollback Is an Economic Disaster
According to the administration’s own math, the pollution rules could eliminate jobs, discourage driving, and inflict billions in damage.
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