Biden’s New Playbook for Greening the Financial System
The Biden administration should fit climate risk into those sorts of tests, Arkush said. It should first make sure that banks don’t face too much “physical risk,” the name for…
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As COVID-19 Ends, COVID-21 Begins
In the end, Haseltine said, we might hope for a universal vaccine that protects against all strains of SARS-CoV-2, as well as future coronaviruses that might emerge. Early research has…
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Bill Nelson’s NASA Dreams Come True
Today, although NASA’s workforce is still mostly white and male, the agency employs more women than ever before as astronauts, engineers, scientists, and other workers. Of the 18 astronauts the…
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The Great Climate Bill of 2021 Is Being Shaped Now
One Final Thought About Texas’s Catastrophe This weekend, I wrote about Texas’s catastrophic blackouts for The Atlantic: Many of the same issues that hampered [Texas also limited] the United States…
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Will There Be Another Surge? The Spring Is the Mystery
The U.K. variant, which scientists call B.1.1.7, is “of grave concern,” he said: In every country it’s dominated, this variant has increased the disease’s reproduction number—R, a measure of how…
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Why Is Vaccination Going So Slowly?
In addition to hospitals, states sent the vaccine to county health departments because, the thinking was, health departments could get doses into arms quickly. Health departments “know how to do…
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Space Force Enters the Post-Trump Era
Which puts President Joe Biden in an interesting predicament. The Space Force has always been more boring than its name implies, amounting to some organizational reshuffling of Air Force personnel…
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Biden Is Now in a Race: Vaccination vs. the Variants
The most crucial question for Biden—and for the country—is how long the overall decline can endure. Biden has described the task at hand as a “wartime” effort against the pandemic,…
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The COVID-19 Toll on the Last Day of Trump’s Presidency
Current hospitalizations are always the most stable indicator of the pandemic’s progress, and after peaking at 132,474 on January 6, they have declined more than 6 percent—meaning that 8,654 fewer…
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How to Think About President Biden’s Big Climate Plans
This represents a break with the past two Democratic administrations, and it flips the issue’s polarity: Climate policy will become no longer about dampening prosperity and chastening growth, but giving…
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