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With the arrival of vaccines, compassion for COVID deaths began to dry up, sometimes replaced by scorn.

Andrea Stanley

The new variant seems to be our quickest one yet. That makes it harder to catch with the tests we have.

Katherine J. Wu

As patience with the pandemic wanes, leaders in widely vaccinated democracies are deploying a new political strategy.

Yasmeen Serhan

For such a familiar celestial body, the sun is still very mysterious—but we’re getting closer to it than ever before.

Marina Koren

Robert Malone claims to have invented mRNA technology. Why is he trying so hard to undermine its use?

Tom Bartlett

Climate change is a tough subject for any film, let alone a satire.

Kevin Townsend Sophie Gilbert David Sims Spencer Kornhaber

I thought I was done dating. But after moving across the country, I had to start again—this time, in search of platonic love.

Katharine Smyth

We now occupy a nearly natureless world.

Alan Lightman

SNL’s inaugural episode of 2022 turned to dark, and often awkward, absurdity to explain our exasperating moment.

Amanda Wicks

The top player in men’s tennis is yet another anti-vaccine athlete who’d rather create chaos than get a shot.

Jemele Hill

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