Tag: Americas
‘America’s Got Talent’: Schlangenmenschen, Komiker und Jongleure glänzen in der letzten Nacht der Auditions der 16. Staffel
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Why America’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rates Are Plummeting
America’s vaccination rates have fallen off a cliff, and nothing seems to help.
On June 2, President Joe Biden announced a frantic plan to reverse what already seemed to be an awful, exponential slide: At the peak of the country’s vaccine rollout in mid-April, almost 3.5 million doses were being put into arms every single day, but that number had quickly dropped by half, and then by half again.
Biden’s “month of action” came and went, and nothing really changed;
Who Authorized America’s Endless Wars?
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America’s Drug-Approval System Is Unsustainable
The byzantine world of pharmaceutical regulation has recently broken into the public consciousness, causing a bit of a panic. Aducanumab—the first new Alzheimer’s treatment in nearly two decades—was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on June 7 despite scant evidence of benefit, and against the nearly unanimous advice of the agency’s expert advisers. Op-eds called the decision, which could trigger billions of dollars in new government spending, a “false hope,” “bad medicine,” and “a new low.” (FDA officials have
‘America’s Got Talent’ Staffel 16: ET wird Woche 7 live bloggen!
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Jonathan Rauch on America’s Competing Totalistic Ideologies
America is in the grips of an epistemic crisis—an assault on reality, a rising inability to distinguish fact from fiction, an effort to shut down free inquiry—that poses an existential threat to liberal democracy. Which is why Jonathan Rauch’s new book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, is so timely and so essential. It helps us understand this moment better than anything else I’ve read and offers insights into what can be done to strengthen what Rauch
Have We Entered America’s Third Era of Reconstruction?
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