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    RFK Jr. Won. Now What?

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    America’s health secretaries, almost as a rule, have résumés manicured to a point of frictionlessness. Once in a while one will attract scandal in their tenure; see Tom Price’s reported…

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    Why the COVID Deniers Won

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    Five years ago, the coronavirus pandemic struck a bitterly divided society. Americans first diverged over how dangerous the disease was: just a flu (as President Donald Trump repeatedly insisted) or…

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    Is Trump Ready for Bird Flu?

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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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    A New Kind of Crisis for American Universities

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    “I personally think that the post–World War II system of big research universities funded heavily by the government will not continue.” That’s how one professor at a big state research…