What to know about the outbreak of a rare kind of Ebola
There are moments in global reporting when the sheer weight of human suffering becomes so overwhelming that it threatens to break the journalistic impulse entirely.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
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M23's Lake Edward closures show institutional decay in Kivu del Norte
The mechanism of crisis management—the imposition of movement restrictions—is ancient.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Ocasio-Cortez and Leavitt: personal will undermines state duty
The headlines today are about two vastly different people—a Congresswoman discussing egg freezing costs, and a White House press secretary announcing her departure after giving birth.
By Grant Colby ·
DRC’s Ebola outbreak began months before it was officially declared, says WHO
The narrative emerging from the Democratic Republic of Congo is not a story of biological novelty; it is a textbook case study in policy latency.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Animal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19
The origins of COVID-19 are not a matter for cable news soundbites or political press releases; they are a question scored in payroll—who got sick, where did the animal market…
By Ray Dombrowski ·
J&J offers $5.5bn settlement in lawsuits claiming talc link to cancer
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay up to $5.5 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc products caused ovarian cancer.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
More health workers strike as Ebola cases in Congo near 3,000, including over 1,300 deaths
When I hear about crises—whether it’s at the border fence or deep in the Congo jungle—I am always looking for who is paying the bill. Who gets to profit from the chaos?
By Alma Cordero ·