The administration calls Moncef Slaoui, who leads its vaccine race, a “contractor” to sidestep rules against personally profiting from government positions. Slaoui owns $10 million in stock of a company working with his team to develop a vaccine.
The former pharmaceutical executive...
A judge for all seasons and all women was only the second woman Justice of the US Supreme Court. A woman of indomitable courage and conviction, she stuck to her values against all odds, even at times taking up cudgels for men.
But finding a woman judge of her stature and...
As another grim milestone approaches, here are the lessons officials ignored and what the country needs to do to prevent further tragedy.
As an editor, I’ve long had mixed feelings about the journalistic tradition of marking particular chronological or numerical milestones. No one...
Global populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have suffered an average two-thirds' decline in less than half a century. This has contributed to environmental degradation, leading to the emergence of zoonotic diseases such as Covid-19, according to WWF's Living Planet...
Record high temperatures. Record fires. Record smoke. ProPublica reporter Elizabeth Weil spoke to former California Gov. Jerry Brown about the state’s converging apocalypses.
Two weeks ago, after freak lightning strikes torched Northern California but before the inferno of Labor Day...
