Epidemics and Pandemics

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Health

The Obvious Reason the U.S. Should Not Vaccinate Like Denmark

Katherine J. Wu

July 24, 2025

Culture

When It Feels Good to Root for a Bad Guy

David Sims

July 23, 2025

Culture

A Nasty, Cynical, and Eerily Accurate Look at All-Too-Recent History

Shirley Li

July 18, 2025

Health

The Conversations Doctors Are Having About Vaccination Now

Katherine J. Wu

July 16, 2025

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Ideas

How Public Health Discredited Itself

John Tierney

July 7, 2025

Health

America’s New Anti-Vaccine Foreign Policy

Hana Kiros

June 28, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s head inside of a globe

Health

The U.S. Is Going Backwards on Vaccines, Very Fast

Katherine J. Wu

June 25, 2025

Health

The ‘Fantasy We Have of Vaccines’ Is in Trouble

Katherine J. Wu

June 19, 2025

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Health

How Ivermectin Became Right-Wing Aspirin

Benjamin Mazer

June 17, 2025

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Health

The Most Extreme Voice on RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Committee

Tom Bartlett

June 13, 2025

Health

RFK Jr. Is Barely Even Pretending Anymore

Katherine J. Wu

June 12, 2025

Health

COVID Shots for Kids Are Over

Katherine J. Wu

May 21, 2025

Letters

The Power of a Good Suit

June 2025 Issue

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Health

‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

Katherine J. Wu

May 6, 2025

Health

The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen

David Zweig

April 17, 2025

Health

Do You Have Your Cootie Shot?

Bruce Handy

April 16, 2025

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Health

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

Katherine J. Wu

April 11, 2025

COVID-19: Five Years Later

Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care

Rebecca Nagle

April 1, 2025

COVID-19: Five Years Later

The Evermaskers

Daniel Engber

April 1, 2025

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Health

What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’

Katherine J. Wu

March 21, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About

Sunita Puri

March 18, 2025

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Books Briefing

The Literature of the Pandemic

Maya Chung

March 14, 2025

COVID-19: Five Years Later

America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease

Roxanne Khamsi

March 11, 2025

COVID-19: Five Years Later

The Novel I’m Searching For

Lily Meyer

March 11, 2025

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Ideas

The Diseases Are Coming

Craig Spencer

March 10, 2025

COVID-19: Five Years Later

COVID Broke the Rules of Virus Evolution

Sarah Zhang

February 24, 2025

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Health

Spared by DOGE—For Now

Nicholas Florko

February 20, 2025

Ideas

Why People Feel Nostalgic for Terrible Times

Olga Khazan

February 19, 2025

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Ideas

How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right

Derek Thompson

February 18, 2025

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Ideas

I’ve Never Seen Parents This Freaked Out About Vaccines

Emily Oster

February 13, 2025

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Ideas

Why the COVID Deniers Won

David Frum

March 2025 Issue

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Health

What Happens When Bird Flu Gets Worse?

Nicholas Florko

February 11, 2025

Health

The Doctor Who Let RFK Jr. Through

Nicholas Florko

February 4, 2025

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Politics

Purging the Government Could Backfire Spectacularly

Rogé Karma

February 3, 2025

Health

What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like

Katherine J. Wu

January 28, 2025

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Sections

The Print Edition

Memoir of a Mailman

The Obvious Reason the U.S. Should Not Vaccinate Like Denmark

When It Feels Good to Root for a Bad Guy

A Nasty, Cynical, and Eerily Accurate Look at All-Too-Recent History

The Conversations Doctors Are Having About Vaccination Now

How Public Health Discredited Itself

America’s New Anti-Vaccine Foreign Policy

The U.S. Is Going Backwards on Vaccines, Very Fast

The ‘Fantasy We Have of Vaccines’ Is in Trouble

How Ivermectin Became Right-Wing Aspirin

The Most Extreme Voice on RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Committee

RFK Jr. Is Barely Even Pretending Anymore

COVID Shots for Kids Are Over

The Power of a Good Suit

‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen

Do You Have Your Cootie Shot?

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care

The Evermaskers

What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’

The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About

The Literature of the Pandemic

America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease

The Novel I’m Searching For

The Diseases Are Coming

COVID Broke the Rules of Virus Evolution

Spared by DOGE—For Now

Why People Feel Nostalgic for Terrible Times

How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right

I’ve Never Seen Parents This Freaked Out About Vaccines

Why the COVID Deniers Won

What Happens When Bird Flu Gets Worse?

The Doctor Who Let RFK Jr. Through

Purging the Government Could Backfire Spectacularly

What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like