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Race, Science & Nature

Racism and Respiration

COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black communities is just one of many respiratory inequities shaped by systemic racism.

Adam Gaffney

Science & Nature

Our Vaccine Infrastructure Needs a Radical Overhaul

We must reimagine how to make life-saving vaccines available to everyone.

Ravi Gupta

Politics, Science & Nature

How to Fix the Climate

Biden should rejoin the Paris Agreement, but diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.

Charles Sabel, David G. Victor

Politics, Science & Nature

From the Editor: Thinking in a Pandemic

COVID-19 is not just a public health crisis. It is also a crisis of public reason.

Matt Lord

Global Justice

How to Talk about COVID-19 in Africa

To ask why COVID-19 hasn’t been deadlier in Africa is to suggest that more Africans should be dying. We need better questions.

Nanjala Nyabola

Science & Nature

To Save the Climate, Give Up the Demand for Constant Electricity

Waiting to ensure uninterrupted power for everyone as we transition away from fossil fuels will cost too much time—and too many lives.

David McDermott Hughes

Politics, Science & Nature

The Trouble with Carbon Pricing

Carbon pricing has dominated conversations around climate policy for decades, but it is ineffective. Only a bold approach that centers politics can meet the problem at its scale.

Matto Mildenberger, Leah C. Stokes

Science & Nature

How Early Modern Empire Changed Medicine

Global trade, enslaved labor, and colonial warfare created demands for medicines that would work for anyone, anywhere. That pressure to view patients as interchangeable remains with us today.

Zachary Dorner

Science & Nature

The Economic Case for a People's Vaccine

Ensuring a COVID-19 vaccine is available to all makes both moral and economic sense.

Sanjay G. Reddy, Arnab Acharya

Global Justice, War & Security

The Racist Foundation of Nuclear Architecture

On the seventy-fifth anniversary of Hiroshima, it is increasingly clear that white supremacy sustains the U.S. nuclear arsenal, while the country's approach to nuclear weapons reinforces racism at home. 

Elaine Scarry

Race, Science & Nature

How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias

Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.

Amy Moran-Thomas

Science & Nature

Steps to a Better COVID-19 Response

There’s no silver bullet, but local experiments and global experiences can help us control the pandemic.

Natalie Dean

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