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What Happens When Bird Flu Gets Worse?
Most of Trump’s health picks are uninterested in using most of the tools that can limit the spread of infectious disease.
A New Kind of Crisis for American Universities
The ivory tower has been breached.
What an ‘America First’ Diet Would Really Look Like
The notion that the U.S. could produce all of its food domestically is nice, but very far from reality.
Trump Is Inheriting an Environmental Disaster
PFAS could be the rare environmental issue that gets addressed this term.
America Can’t Just Unpause USAID
The speed with which the Trump administration took the agency apart will be felt for years to come.
The Doctor Who Let RFK Jr. Through
The opposition folds.
The Last Days of American Orange Juice
Savor every last drop.
ADHD’s Sobering Life-Expectancy Numbers
The benefits of an early diagnosis are only becoming clearer.
If RFK Jr. Loses
The “Make America Healthy Again” movement doesn’t hinge on his confirmation.