Trump’s CDC Director Has a History of Controversial Opinions on Controlling Viruses
J. Scott Applewhite/AP While President Donald Trump rambled his way through an extremely weird visit to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta on Friday, the lineup of serious-looking scientists behind him was supposed to inspire confidence that there are trustworthy and qualified people leading the nation’s response to the deadly coronavirus. But as the…
Bern Researchers Produce New Coronavirus Fatality Estimate
Waiting for a train at LA’s Union Station in the coronavirus era.Kevin Drum There are two obvious biases when trying to estimate the death rate from coronavirus. First, there’s the likelihood that there are a lot more infected people than the official reports say. This includes people without symptoms as well as people who have…
The Smaller Is Better Movement in Nuclear Power
The simulator control room at NuScale Power’s small modular reactor design facility in Oregon.NuScale Power This piece was originally published in Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Huge computer screens line a dark, windowless control room in Corvallis, Oregon, where engineers at the company NuScale Power hope to…
How McDonald’s Convinced Us That Civil Rights Was About Black-Owned Businesses
Demonstrators walk on a street shouting slogans to protest the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in November 2014.Michael B. Thomas / Getty Images In August of 2014, all eyes were on Ferguson, Missouri. The city’s mostly Black residents flooded the streets in protest after the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown…
It’s Long Past Time For Donald Trump to Quit the Clowning
NBC News The more that Donald Trump’s latest coronavirus press avail sinks in, the angrier I get. There he is, wearing a campaign cap and mugging for the camera. Interrupting Alex Azar when he’s on the verge of telling the truth about something. Bloviating about how he’s an innate medical genius. Complaining that he doesn’t…
Trump: Keep ’Em On the Ship. I Don’t Want Our Coronavirus Numbers To Go Up.
President Trump leaves the White House after a grueling day signing the coronavirus emergency funding bill sent to him by Congress.Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA This. Is. Fucking Nuts. “I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship” — Trump explains that he doesn’t want…