Donald Trump’s first term saw a great deal of political polarization. Right- and left-leaning Americans disagreed about environmental regulation and immigration. They disagreed about vaccines and reproductive rights. And they…
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For decades in the United States, scientists and government officials have coexisted in a mostly peaceable and productive symbiosis. The government has funded science and then largely left well enough…
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Before it burned, Charlie Springer’s house contained 18,000 vinyl LPs, 12,000 CDs, 10,000 45s, 4,000 cassettes, 600 78s, 150 8-tracks, hundreds of signed musical posters, and about 100 gold records.…
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Twice during his Senate confirmation hearings at the end of last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s new health secretary, brought up a peer-reviewed study by a certain “Mawson” that…
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. America’s health secretaries, almost as a rule, have résumés manicured to a point…
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Updated at 11:26 a.m. ET on February 12, 2025 Five years ago, the coronavirus pandemic struck a bitterly divided society. Americans first diverged over how dangerous the disease was: just…
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President Donald Trump might have campaigned on lowering the prices of groceries, but even as egg prices have become a minor national crisis, he has stayed quiet about the driving…
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Updated at 5:49 p.m. ET on February 10, 2025 “I personally think that the post–World War II system of big research universities funded heavily by the government will not continue.”…
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For a moment, the threat of guac-ocalypse loomed over America. Had President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada gone into effect, the prices of avocados and tomatoes would…
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In Wisconsin, where late last year Donald Trump said at a campaign stop, “I’m an environmentalist … I want clean air and clean water—really clean water,” many people want that…