Explainers Archive
Archives for June 2022
The youngest children may prove to be the hardest to vaccinate.
Turkey dropped its opposition after striking a deal with the Nordic countries at the NATO summit, paving the way for the alliance to officially expand.
Some states are already enacting and embracing stricter abortion laws in the wake of the Dobbs decision.
Though officers were inside Robb Elementary School just three minutes after the gunman entered, it took them 1 hour, 14 minutes, and 8 seconds to end the massacre.
The pre-Roe world didn’t have data privacy laws. The post-Roe world needs them.
Since Roe was decided in 1973, the US’s political parties got further apart on abortion.
Is it really useful to “teach a person to fish” or should you just give them the damn fish already?
Democratic incumbents sailed to victory as Republicans leaned even more into Trump.
New York’s highest court ruled Happy the elephant isn’t a legal person. Here’s what that says about us.
A “foreign policy for the middle class” and centering human rights collide in the Middle East.
Gas prices are high. But this isn’t the 1970s.
Covid-19 vaccines for little kids are critical even though they face lower risks.
Poor health care access and aggressive formula marketing are driving down America’s breastfeeding rates.
Controlled burns are more dangerous but more necessary than ever.
Biodiversity loss could flatten corporate profits. Investors are scrambling to figure out which firms hold the most risk.