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    RFK Jr.’s Victory Lap

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    This spring, months before the recent dramatic departures from the CDC, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. battled with the agency’s scientists during the very first public-health crisis of his tenure as…

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    Goodbye FEMA, Hello Disaster Consultants

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    Derrick Hiebert had planned to stick it out at FEMA. He was an assistant administrator working on hazard mitigation—he specialized in getting communities prepared for disasters—and like many emergency-management experts…

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    RFK Jr. Is Running Michelle Obama’s Playbook

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    In February 2010, Michelle Obama launched “Let’s Move!” with a wide-ranging plan to curb childhood obesity. The campaign took aim at processed foods, flagged concerns about sugary drinks, and called…

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    A Terrible Week for Pumpkin Spice

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    Every year, there is a single day when summer turns to fall. In 2025, on the Gregorian calendar, this day is September 22. On the pumpkin-spice calendar, it was Tuesday,…

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    ‘It Feels Like the CDC Is Over’

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is coming undone. The White House announced last night that it had ousted the agency’s newly sworn-in director, Susan Monarez, whose lawyers insist…

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    What Women’s Baseball Will Look Like

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    The mosquitoes and the National Guard were out, but it was otherwise a perfect day in the capital. Clear and sunny, not too hot: baseball weather. The first pitch was…

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    Inside the USAID Fire Sale

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    Updated at 7:31 p.m. ET on August 26, 2025 One of the more surreal knock-on effects of the gutting of USAID is that the U.S. government is now holding a…