From Jenna Orkin

A Critic at Large Facebook’s Broken Vows How the company’s pledge to bring the world together wound up pulling us apart. By Jill Lepore

 

The Science Says Everyone Needs a COVID-19 Booster Shot—and Soon

The biology of the delta variant has made mass revaccination an urgent necessity.

By Laurie Garrett

New Bill Would Mandate Smaller Classes In NYC Public Schools

New York City Council Puts New Limits On Food Delivery Apps

The action was in response to the growing popularity of delivery apps during the pandemic, and concerns that they’re taking advantage of hard-hit restaurants.

Vaccines alone can’t stop the COVID-19 Delta variant: study

‘The war has changed’: Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe

More than 10,000 China, Russia soldiers to attend joint drill in Ningxia

1.6 Billion Disposable Masks Entered Our Oceans in 2020

The wife of the slain Haiti president said she survived the attack because the assassins thought they'd killed her already

An Arizona GOP state senator who backed the election audit withdrew her support, attacking the process as botched

The Delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox, leaked CDC presentation warns

• An internal CDC document warned that the Delta coronavirus variant can transmit as easily as chickenpox.
• The leaked document said fully vaccinated people may spread the virus as easily as the unvaccinated.
• But it said vaccines protect people from severe disease and death by up to 10 times.