The supply chain lesson from pandemic
COVID-19 has exposed the skewness in the globalized supply chain. During the pandemic, the disruption of the value chain was common across most, if...
Too many crops aren’t used to feed people
Rising competition for many of the world’s important crops is sending increasing amounts toward uses other than directly feeding people. These competing uses include...
Could ‘regionalism’ slow offshore wind?
In Rhode Island, home to the first offshore wind farm in the U.S., most people support expanding offshore wind power – with one important...
A tricky landing ahead for the Fed
The Federal Reserve will likely soon learn what gymnasts already know: sticking a landing is hard.
With inflation surging to a new 40-year high and...
A bit of optimism in recent climate reports
It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable that societies...
The future of misinformation on Twitter?
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is acquiring Twitter in a $44 billion deal that will take the publicly traded company private.
In a filing...
Doctors could be undermining COVID fight
American attitudes toward scientific expertise have become increasingly contentious in recent years. But many people across the political spectrum still place high levels of...
Suddenly, the new U.S. union movement
In a result that could reverberate across the U.S., the independent Amazon Labor Union – first formed in 2020 by Chris Smalls, an Amazon.com...
Opioid settlement funds must be spent right
States, cities, counties and tribal governments nationwide will soon receive a windfall through several major opioid settlements. Drug distributors and manufacturers will relinquish a...
The doctor-patient relationship in a COVID world
Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get...
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