'Three decisions and a two-point plan': How Australia got on top of COVID-19 ~health Article 1377 words 4 votes
How scientists could stop the next pandemic before it starts ~health healthcare Article 1581 words, published Apr 21 2020 4 votes
Top Republican fundraiser and Donald Trump ally named postmaster general, giving US President new influence over Postal Service ~society politics Article 1312 words 8 votes
Scott Morrison is now very popular in Australia. He hasn’t earned that. ~society politics Article 819 words 10 votes
The problem with stories about dangerous coronavirus mutations. There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months ~health Article 2076 words 8 votes
Rays of hope—Arab states are embracing solar power ~enviro energy.renewable Article 624 words 8 votes
Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979) ~humanities.history Article 146 words, published Oct 28 1979 7 votes
"ICU delirium" is leaving COVID-19 patients scared and confused ~health healthcare Article 1848 words 7 votes
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it ~tech internet Article 4171 words 11 votes
“Political connections and cronyism”: In blistering whistleblower complaint, Rick Bright blasts Team Trump’s pandemic response ~health Article 2203 words 7 votes
How Jared Kushner's volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for US supplies ~health Article 834 words 4 votes
Republicans are sacrificing other Americans' freedoms for their own, like once happened in the American Civil War ~society politics Article 2311 words 9 votes
Flattening the truth on coronavirus: All your questions about the pandemic, answered. Sort of ~health Article 922 words 8 votes
A US internal report projects 200,000 new cases per day and 3,000 deaths per day by June 1st ~health Article 772 words 16 votes
‘Murder hornets’ in the US: The rush to stop the Asian giant hornet ~enviro Article 429 words 17 votes
Number of nursing homes in the US with publicly reported cases of the coronavirus soars ~health healthcare Article 1581 words 7 votes
Shipments of SUVs wait out at at sea, revealing scope of US auto market glut ~finance Article 13 votes
After six weeks of lockdown, Miamians enjoy first weekend of reopened parks, marinas ~life Article 1156 words 5 votes
The US wants Mexico to keep its defense and health-care factories open. Mexican workers are getting sick and dying ~finance Article 1934 words 9 votes
Why Joe Biden should shy away from challenging Trump on COVID ~society politics Article 535 words 2 votes
Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom ~enviro sustainability Article 16 votes
BoJack Horseman and Ibsen: Prestige television’s greatest trick ~tv Article 1849 words, published Jan 28 2020 8 votes
There has not been a single instance of a child under ten transmitting the coronavirus, even in contact tracing carried out by World Health Organization ~health Article 248 words 10 votes
Australian intelligence officials have no evidence of Wuhan lab link to coronavirus ~health Article 520 words 6 votes
Anthony Fauci calls US data from Gilead virus-drug trial ‘good news’ ~health medicine Article 5 votes
The West’s incompetent response to the pandemic will hasten the power-shift to the east ~health Article 1570 words 13 votes
Bill Gates: Here are the innovations we need to reopen the economy ~finance Article 1343 words, published Apr 23 2020 5 votes
April 15, 2020: A coronavirus chronicle - Twenty-four hours at the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City ~health Article 3 votes
In race for a coronavirus vaccine, an Oxford group leaps ahead: As scientists at the Jenner Institute prepare for mass clinical trials, new tests show their vaccine to be effective in monkeys ~health medicine Article 6 votes
Many schools are already closed until the end of the year. So what happens to all those missed classes? ~life education Article 2089 words 11 votes
Nearly two years after Europe's GDPR privacy law came into effect, supporters are frustrated by lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources and stalling tactics by the tech companies ~tech privacy Article 10 votes
US deaths soared in early weeks of pandemic, far exceeding number attributed to COVID-19 ~health Article 2816 words 7 votes
George Wallace's base has found a home in the Republican party ~society politics Article 3078 words 3 votes
Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead. New York’s did not ~health Article 6747 words 15 votes